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A carriage met them on the other side of the valley, and then they soon entered the park. "I am almost as much a stranger here as yourself, dear duchess," said Lothair; "but I have seen some parts which, I think, will please you." And they commenced a drive of varying, but unceasing, beauty. "I hope I see the wild-cattle," said Lady Corisande.
The term "buccaneer," though usually applied to the corsairs who in the seventeenth century ravaged the Spanish possessions in the West Indies and the South Seas, should really be restricted to these cattle-hunters of west and north-west Hispaniola. The flesh of the wild-cattle was cured by the hunters after a fashion learnt from the Caribbee Indians.
He affectionately rubbed a twisted hand along his rifle barrel and made sure that the sights were clean. He had learned to shoot as a wild-cattle hunter on Niihau, and on that island his skill as a marksman was unforgotten.
Lady Corisande saw the wild-cattle, and many other things, which gratified and charmed her. It was a long drive, even of hours, and yet no one was, for a moment, wearied. "What a delightful day!" Lady Corisande exclaimed in her mother's dressing-room. "I have never seen any place so beautiful." "I agree with you," said the duchess; "but what pleases me most are his manners.
Except some wild-cattle hunting which we had in view, every hoof was branded up by the time the surveyor arrived at the ranch. The locating of twenty sections of land was an easy matter. We had established corners from which to work, and commencing on the west end of my original location, we ran off an area of country, four miles west by five south.
The park, too, was full of life, for there were not only herds of red and fallow deer, but, in its more secret haunts, wandered a race of wild-cattle, extremely savage, white and dove-colored, and said to be of the time of the Romans. It was not without emotion that Lothair beheld the chief seat of his race. It was not the first time he had visited it.
Carew the elder," observed the artist, coolly. "Was I? True, so I was. Well, she and the young Squire was for all the world like a deer with her fawn all tenderness and timidity, so long as he was let alone; but when this 'ere woman came, as she considered his enemy, she was as bold as a red stag nay, as one of our wild-cattle.
That his determination in the matter was pig-headed and brutal, there is no doubt; but the Squire's nature was far from exclusive, and the idea of saving in any thing, it is certain, never entered into his head. The time, indeed, was slowly but surely coming when the park should know no more not only its wild-cattle, but many a rich copse and shadowy glade.
"Market!" echoed the keeper, contemptuously; "there'd be a market to-morrow morning for the whole herd o' our wild-cattle, if they were stolen to-night; there'd be a market for a rhinoceros or a halligator, if we happened to keep 'em, bless 'ee, as easy as for a sucking pig! But I don't call that poaching I mean the fawn-stealing.
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