On their way back to their camp, the narrator and Mister Ernest come to "a long open glade" in the woods, where the absence of trees and undergrowth enables them to see both the dogs resting several "hundred yards" ahead, and also, "at the fur end of the glade," the buck himself taking a rest too (305).
A "fire road" in the woods is meant to provide access to equipment in case of a forest fire (298), and can be little more than a widened path. This one seems to run parallel to the river.
This story takes place long after the hunting camp that Major de Spain built on the site of Sutpen's fishing camp has disappeared, and far enough away from "Yoknapatawpha" to suggest that it's in the Delta region of Mississippi, perhaps on the Sunflower River (where Faulkner himself hunted in the mid-20th century). Unlike "Delta Autumn," where the hunters set up tents on their arrival for the annual hunt, the "camp" in this story seems to be a permanent and fairly big set of structures.
A bayou is a swamp-like body of water, sluggish or stagnant, usually adjacent to a river. It can be shallow enough to wade or, like this bayou near the story's hunting camp, deep enough to swim a horse, and it can be big enough to contain, as this one does, "a little canebrake island" in its middle where a deer can make its bed (299).
A bayou is a swamp-like body of water, sluggish or stagnant, usually adjacent to a river. Hog Bayou "runs into the river" fifteen miles south of the story's first bayou (301). It has "a mess of down trees and logs and such" as well as water in it (301), and at one point "narrows down to about twelve or fifteen feet across" - which is where Mister Ernest tries to jump his horse across (302).
While the other hunters are from Yoknapatawpha, Mister Ernest and the narrator are from "Van Dorn" (303). This could be the (invented) name of a town in Mississippi, but it seems more likely that it is the name of Ernest's plantation. (His last name may even be Van Dorn - which is also the name of a Confederate General from Mississippi, though that is speculative.) It is a place on the river, close enough to the hunting camp for the narrator to accuse the buck they chase of eating "our beans and oats" during the year (301), and large enough to be home to an unspecified number of Mr.
On their way back to their camp, the narrator of "Race at Morning" and Mister Ernest come to "a long open glade" in the woods, where the absence of trees and undergrowth enables them to see both the dogs resting several "hundred yards" ahead, and also, "at the fur end of the glade," the buck himself taking a rest too (305).
"Hollyknowe camp" is where a third party of hunters in "Race at Morning" is camped. It's at least twenty miles below the place where the chase began, but like the other two camps, it's near the river.
A bayou is a swamp-like body of water, sluggish or stagnant, usually adjacent to a river - in the fictions Faulkner and his narrators usually refer to this as a 'slough.' In "Race at Morning" Hog Bayou "runs into the river" fifteen miles south of the story's first bayou (301). It has "a mess of down trees and logs and such" as well as water in it (301), and at one point "narrows down to about twelve or fifteen feet across" - which is where Mister Ernest tries to jump his horse across (302).
