Of course, near Carthagena these creatures have been eradicated; but among the mountains they abound, and the carcass of a dead horse is sure to attract plenty of them.

It is a sport not without danger; and there are many instances where parties of five or six have gone out, taking with them a carcass to attract the wolves, and have never returned; and a search has resulted in the discovery of their weapons, injured and perhaps broken, of stains of blood and signs of a desperate struggle, but of them not so much as a bone has remained behind." "I thought lion hunting was an exciting sport but the lions, although they may move and hunt in companies, do not fight in packs, as these fierce brutes seem to do.

I hope some day to try it.

I should like to send back two of their heads to hang on the wall by the side of that of the lion I killed up in the desert." "Next winter you may do so," the officer said.

"The season is nearly over now, and you may be sure that Hannibal will give us enough to do without our thinking of hunting wolves.