92 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Tunica Coiinty — 



Hudson's Ferry, on the Coldwater River. A tine trapping region. Otters, 

 beavers, coons, minks and muskrats are found. Ducks, geese and brant are also 

 plenty in season. 



Hudson. This section of the State, near the Mississippi River, is an excellent 

 region for bears, deer, panthers, wild cats, wild turkeys, geese, swan, ducks, part- 

 ridges and squirrels. Board can be had among the farmers, for $8 and §io per 

 week. 



A ustin is a convenient centre for sport in the Mississippi Bottom. Deers, tur- 

 keys, ducks, and other game are abundant, with occasionally a bear. The route 

 is via the river steamers. Immediately behind the levee, there is generally a 

 cypress swamp, a belt of cottonwood trees or a dense canebrake. Behind these 

 syvamps and canebrakes, lie the cultivated fields, and the deadening or burnt 

 tracts. In these fields of deadening, the deer lie ruminating, and dogs give tongue 

 before they have been in their covers many minutes. Deer are to be had either 

 by still-hunting them, or by running them before the dogs ; but as the fonner 

 method requires not only great e.xperience.but also an accurate knowledge of the 

 country, a stranger will find the other the more productive and satisfactory of the 

 two. Although some of the planters in the Bottom keep their own packs of 

 hounds, yet it will be as well for the sportsman, if he go south with the intention of 

 running deer, to take along a couple of dogs. The people are generally very ready 

 to point out the deer passes, or stands. Still farther back from the river stretches 

 the great forest, encroached upon at intervals by patches of cleared land, and in- 

 tersected by lengthy bayous and broad lagoons. Here the sportsman may bag 

 ducks and geese innumerable, and swans also, if he can stalk tnem. All kinds oi 

 water fowl are very abundant, and may be shot in many places where they are 

 easily recovered at the cost of a wetting ; but when one has to thread his way 

 among the lagoons and bayous, a good retriever is an almost indispensable 

 assistant. Some of the lagoons are of great extent, and are almost invariably pro- 

 vided with a skiff, a dug out, or a floating machine of some sort, the use of which 

 is generally to be had without any trouble by an application to the neighboring 

 planter, whose property it is. The winter months are the best for sport. The 

 country at other seasons is unhealthy. 

 Washington County — 



This county and those adjoining, through which the Sunflower River flows, 

 afford excellent duck, wild goose, squirrel, coon, deer, bear and panther hunting ; 

 and striped bass, black bass, and white and bachelor perch fishing. To reach 

 this county take steamer from Vicksburg, up the Big Sunflower River. Provide 

 camping equipments. Information as to the best localities can be obtained from 

 the ofBcers of^the steamers. 



Greenville. The Deer Creek country, running parallel with the Mississippi 

 for one hundred miles, has its principal outlet here. Bear, deer, and small game 

 abundant. Excellent fishing in Washington and Lee Lakes. Reached from New 

 Orleans, St. Louis, or Louisville via steamer. 

 Yazoo County — 



The county ofl"ers abundant employment for both rod and gun. Bears, deer, 

 wild turkeys,' quail, etc., ducks, geese, and many other varieties of game are here 

 in great numbers. The county is traversed by the Vazoo River, by which access 

 is had to the game grounds. The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern 

 Railroad touches the eastern border of the county. 

 Wilkinson County— 



Woodville. Between this town and Natchez will be found a good game 

 country. (See Adams County.) 



MISSOURI. 



Area 65,350 square miles ; population 1,721,295. The north- 

 ern and north-western portions of the surface are for the most part 

 rolling' [)rairie, interspersed with hills of timber. South of the Mis- 



