CHAPTER VIII.

HUNTING WITH DOGS.

Refitting--Our mongrels--Shipping our spoils--Visitors--Stepan’s yarns--The hedgehog--Legend of the bracken--The Euxine in a fury--Trebogging--Traces of Tscherkess villages--Enormous boars--Their feeding grounds--Lose a bear--Impenetrable thickets hiding the proximity of big game--A rare day’s sport--Shooting in the moonlight--An expedition--Fever--Precautions against it--Unsuccessful sport and hard fare 145