l8o SHOOTING IN CHINA 



Smith, the British Consul at that port. We 

 arrived at Shanghai on the 24th., about 4 

 p.m. with a full bag of experience, but with 

 seventy-two pheasants only. 



The boat we lived in for more than two 

 weeks may be described as follows : It was 

 built of ordinary Chinese pine timber, and 

 the boards were oiled so as to keep out the 

 water. The length was nearly fifty feet, the 

 width, at the middle, was in proportion to 

 the length, but the stern and bow were 

 pointed and both high up from the water 

 similar to a Venetian gondola. There were 

 two bunks on each side, made of hard wood, 

 which could be felt through a mattress a 

 foot thick. Beneath the floor to our room 

 was a sleeping room for the crew, and 

 between the flooring planks there were open 

 spaces so that the smell of a Chinese sleeping 

 room came up into ours and settled around 

 our bunks like a fog. The after part of our 

 sleeping room was open and we were fully 

 exposed until we found a piece of old sail 

 and partly closed it, but this did not keep 

 out the wind. There was a door in the front 

 part, but the top of the boat was so construct- 

 ed as to prevent the loadah from seeing how 

 to steer unless it was kept open. We, 



