The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-11
GAME IN CUBA.
Deer, wild Boar and other Animals
AbOund-Great Variety of Birds.
From ENoraSf ond Gfraapo

Deer, Wild Boar and other Animals
AbOund-Great Variety of Birds.
From Forest and Stream.
While Cuba offers such a haven to the
invalid, it is a paradise for the sportsman,
wild game and fish of all kinds being
abundant.
Parties of gentlemen on horseback with
their pack of hounds, hunt the feet-footed
deer. 1t is a common thing for small
party to kill eight or ten deer in a day.
The wild boar is plentiful, and sometimes,
If cornered, dangerous, especially the old
master of the herd called Gun solitario,"
which will tear a dog to pieces or make
a green hunter climb a tree, but a Cuban
easily kills him with a machete. The
island boar sometimes weighs 200 or 800
pounds and has huge tusks, often five
or six inches in length The meat of the
female is much relished by the natives.
Wild dogs and cats wild cattle, horses
and jackasses abound. But the jutia, pc
culiar only to Cuba, which looks like
cross between a squirrel with rats tail,
and a rabbit and which lives in the trees
and feeds on nuts and leaves, Is the great
delight of the Cuban.
Fowls are in great numbers. Wild
guinea hens and turkeys are found in
tiocks from 25 to 100 The whistle of
the quail and the futter of the pheasant
and perdz are heard on all sides in the
rural and mountain regions. Ducks in
abundance come over from Florida in
the winter and return with the spring.
Wild pigeons, with their white tops and
bodies of blue, larger somewhat than the
domestic bird, offer, in hunting, the great
est sport to gentlemen who will be re-
strained within reason. In the early
mornings the pigeons generally go to feed
on the mangle berries when ripe, and
which grow by the sea or near some
swampy place. have known a party of
three persons to kill 1900 of the pigeons
within a few hours. Robiches, tojosas and
guanaros are found in the thick woods.
Mockng and blue birds, orioles, tur-
pals. negritos, parrots and a thousand
kinds of songsters and birds of brilliant
plumage fit from tree to tree.
The naturalist Poey says there are Gal
distinct species of fish in the Cuban
waters. Among those that delight the
sportsmen are the red snapper, lista, man
ia, gallego, cubera, surela and garf1sh- The
sierra, which weighs from forty to sixty
pounds, is extremely game, as is the rom
co, SO called because 1t SHORES when
brought out of the water. For heavy sport,
fishing for sharks, which are good for
nothing, or the gusa which weighs from
400 to 600 pounds, and is excellent eating.
offers abundant exercise. 1t is a daily
occurrence to see schools of fish. number
ing from hundreds to many thousands,
each fish Weighing from one to four
pounds, swimming around the bays and
harbors waiting for bait. Any American
who enjoys good fishing can find his fond
est dreams more than satisfied in Cuba
Delicious shrimp, crabs and Holsters.
oysters and CLAIMS abound. The Holsters
have no claws and weigh from two = to
eight pounds They are caught at night
i'm shallow places along the sandy beach,
a torch, harpoon and net being the neces-
sary outfit Some of the rivers abound
in alligators, but few hunt them.