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the city with game and pheasants were not 

 plentiful. In the afternoon between 3 and 

 5 o'clock, my dog found ten pheasants and 

 I bagged seven. Our boat, being rather 

 large to go much higher up the river, we 

 decided to turn her bow towards Hangchow, 

 and on the iSth., we again anchored near 

 Nitze-fu. The new crew provided us by 

 the magistrate were engaged for the up 

 river trip, and when we returned to Nitze-fu 

 we had to enter into another agreement 

 with them to take the boat to Hangchow, 

 which was effected without delay. The 

 price w^as two Mexican dollars per head for 

 the trip. After shooting on the right bank 

 of the river until about noon, we pulled up 

 anchor and started for Psiang-Ka-poo which 

 we reached, thanks to a fair wind, at 5.30 

 in the afternoon. The weather was quite 

 warm and we expected more rain, but when 

 the 19th. came there was instead of rain 

 a strong adverse wind which steadily blew 

 during the entire day, and we remained at 

 anchor until the 20th. But notwithstand- 

 ing the cold wind w^e went on shore and had 

 fairly good luck. The cover was very good, 

 but we had been anticipated by the native 

 sportsmen. On the morning of the 20th we 



