Hunting at night, with uplifted fire-pans.

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1826.  The most interesting hunts [in Louisiana] are practised by night, and are called fire-huntings. [A description follows.]—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 339.

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1845.  A Fire-hunt is also described in the Yale Lit. Mag., xi. 89–90 (Dec.).

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