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it is impossible to guess, as he was obliged to 

 leave off from having fired away all his ammu- 

 nition. This same officer, on another occasion, 

 bagged twenty-nine couple, and his brother-in- 

 law, Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable A. F. 

 Ellis, ^ who was with him, shot thirty-seven 

 couple, making the enormous bag of sixty-six 

 couple of snipe between them, in a few hours. 

 Wild boar and deer were occasionally killed by 

 us ; but we oftener saw, than got shots at them, be- 

 cause, from our being in pursuit of woodcocks, our 

 large pack of spaniels were sure to disturb them 

 before any of us came within a fair distance. The 

 results of our day's sport, however, used to be very 

 varied : occasionally, all the descriptions of game 

 I have mentioned, viz. boar, deer, hares, ducks, 

 widgeon, teal, woodcocks, partridges, snipe, quail, 

 used to swell our list. 



Our ordinary mode of proceeding was to join 

 our forces, and make parties of from twelve to 

 fifteen guns ; and scouring the woods with twenty- 



* Since the above was written, the service has lost an excellent 

 ofl&cer, his regiment a kind friend, and a large family an affec- 

 tionate husband and father, by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Ellis, at Jamaica, on the 16th August, 1841. 



