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twenty-two brace of grouse, and two deer on 

 Thetis Island; we also had some good duck- 

 shooting and trout-fishing at Chemainus, re- 

 turning to Esquimalt much pleased with our 

 expedition and the hospitality of our kind host 

 and hostess. By this time the grouse had been 

 pretty well thinned in the neighbourhood of 

 Esquimalt; so I turned my attention more 

 especially to the deer, and spent much of my 

 spare time hunting in the woods, accompanied 

 only by my coxswain. We generally landed 

 before daylight, and by going very quietly to 

 work and firing at nothing but deer we often 

 managed to bag one before we had been many 

 hours from the ship. One evening I wounded 

 a deer near Tyler's farm, where I was putting up; 

 so we went back to the house for a dog which 

 they had there. Putting the animal on the 

 trail he led us to a thick clump of bushes, when 

 out jumped a beautiful buck, which I shot ; this 

 deer weighed 136 pounds clean : the wounded 

 one escaped. On another occasion we had 

 hunted all the morning without success, when 



