The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-13
Chicago Inter-Ocean.)


| Daer hunters from the north find tneir
| avnerience of little use in hunting III ~ ~
| forests bordering on the Amazon ~ far
| Brazil; not that the game Is olli .l'si,~ 10
the deer found there are very ~. ii,sIc
| the deer hunted here, being sinlpis a .ts..
| more stocky. owing TO the fact that tiieIi
| range is restricted by the dense ILL., ILL.,;
growth found almost everywhere, ~,
/ runs are mostly confined TO the ht,ie 20 ~
! they keep open by nibbling the SHOUTS Do
| they intrude from year To year ia
well bred northern deerhouhu Coui.
| overtake or tire out his quarry. withoHt
| doubt but the well bred northern uos III ~
Brazil soon succumbs to the climate anu
! the MANY nests and dangers which he can
neither recognize nor defend hinIse a
| against such as snakes. scorpions anu d
host of singing insects. his pei,dal..t eaiS ?,
| hairy feet and thick coat aIIord ioo5iiie'i'
| 10 his deadly enemies. , -.
! The native deerhound, as he is called Is
I not a hound al all. but slender, alihos.
| hairless animal, with ears that stahu
| erect instead of being pendulous- he IldS
| not the keen nose of his northern name
sake and does not often require IL III
! following game in their well beaten pain
WAYS He is always alert for hidden daii-
| ger which he detects as quickly as MS
master can -,
The only enemy he fails to avoid is the
onca by which name the Jasuar is KNOWN
| throughout South America, which some
| times gets between the deer and the dos'
| on him from some overhanging limb OF
| leaning tree trunk. The Jaguar, IKE all
! the cat family. hates dogs and taxes
| pleasure in trapping one IN TINS way anu
| is very expert in foreseelnS Wnefe Sdlile
will run when pursued.
| Deer like most other wild animals, con
| fine themselves to limited tract for thelf
! feeding ground. Their labyrinthlne pain,
ways lead TO all parts or this tract. ano
! the hunter who knows the ground selects
4 a point on a run where the deer IS likely
| to pass and here awaits a shot.
| AS moving about is often almost lmpos-
! sible save I'm these tunnel-like paths. hunl-
! ing in this way is very fatiguing, for one
! can rarely stand erect in following the
| quarry. and getting your ganie home, II
I you are so fortunate as TO get any, some
! times is "A difficult problem.
/ You all know what peccary is. and
\ ours are much like the Texan or Mexican
/ variety; little larger. but the same
| gray. thin beast. shaped like catils'l.
with q thin, convex nose ana tWo-lhcn
/ tucks curved up. This is the only animal
| I know of that gun does not brighten.
| The speaker was a man Just Dach from
/ Brazil
| '.Sinely or in companies of three or -four
| they are as timid as rabbits and behave
much like them lying perfectly still I'M
/ Ill almost trodden on: then crashing away
/ and making all the noise they can. Few
I hunters have nerve enough 20 take shot
| even when they run in plain sight.
Save in the breeding season they get
/ together in droves of hundreds. sometimes
/ thousands; then let them alone If you are
: alone.
The victim Of the adventure | alluded
I to was young man who was sent out 10
! Brazil by a firm in the states. ornamental
! lumber dealers who wished TO purchase a
! suita Bile tract near the Amazon river and
| set up a sawmill. A bright fellow, but no
I woo0sm9n.
THE nearest neiGhbor of Captain Val
dez with whom we were both stopping,
was some six miles by the circuitous road.