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Poaching
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The natural game preserve has not fceen decimated by the constant poachings of pot-hunting mankind, because it is so much easier for them to procure their food from the waters immediately at hand.
The pot-hunters' and the professionals' objects are meat and money.
It is much easier for them to lift their food out of the sea over the edge of a pier or the side of a vessel than to tramp a few miles into the interior, loaded with rifle or shot-gun, and to lug their game back to their homes or a market.
Camping
The charms of camp life in the invigorating clime of the pine lands and oak forests, the beating race of silky-brushed setters, the statuesque pose of the thoroughbred pointer, the whirr of springing bevies, or the sweet melody of a winding horn, echoing in the woodlands and calling up the responsive music of the deer-hounds' deep baying, are all reserved for the amateur sportsman, who can appreciate these things, as they are to be found in the former famous hunting-grounds of the red man beyond Biloxi Bay, where the lumberman's ax and the hunter's rifle in cheering tones tell the stranger the great American forests are not yet all felled and American game not all gone to the rocky ranges of the Western Sierras, or, like the aboriginal legends, beyond the setting sun to the spirit hunting-grounds of long-departed tribes of hunters and warriors.
Source:	Seventh chapter of "THE GULF COAST" Letters written for
the New Orleans "Times-Democrat" by Fr. R. A. Wilkinson in 1886 and published by the Passenger Department Louisville & Nashville R. R.
'Historic New Orleans Collection'
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