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CHAPTER II. 



NOTES ON THE NEARER LYING SHOOTING DISTRICTS. 



1.— KiANGWAN or Chiangwan. "River Bend." 



A SHORT railway journey of three miles lands one at the outskirts of the small town of 

 Kiangwan. In its immediate neighbourhood there is nothing specially attractive in 

 the way of shooting, but it forms a convenient starting point whence to tap the surrounding 

 country. It is a place greatly affected by Portuguese and Japanese shooters whom the 

 Sunday trains take there in great numbers. Favourite shooting walks are to the Point on 

 the Whangpoo River about 3 miles distant, to Woosung, on either side of the railway line, 

 about 8 miles in a direct line, or to the Kading Road some miles to the West of the Town. 

 East and West the country is slightly undulating, and though game is not plentiful by any 

 manner of means yet a small but diversified bag may reasonably be expected, and is some- 

 times accounted for. 



2.— Woosung (^ ^). "Entrance to River." 



Woosung village lies practically at the mouth of the Whangpoo River, on the left 

 bank, 38 // from Shanghai, and nearly due north of the Settlement. A fairly broad creek 

 runs from the village to Kading (^^), but, though the quickest and pleasantest route to that 

 city, the water is too shallow to allow of the passage of an ordinary houseboat for more than 

 12 //. On the right bank of the creek, and heading towards Paoshan (^|ll), are some 

 inviting grass covers in which a few pheasants are occasionally to be picked up, and when 

 woodcocks are about they usually light in the neighbourhood after their passage across the 

 Yangtze. During the 1894 season very fair sport was obtained on the Pootung side, opposite 

 Woosung itself. 



3.— Paoshan (W UJ). "Precious Hill." 



Paoshan, named Precious Hill for some occult reason, for there is not the vestige of a 

 hill within twenty miles, is a prefectural walled city on the right bank of the Yangtsze, 

 about two miles distant from the Woosung Forts where the railway sets down the shooter, 

 whence it may be reached by one of the broadest, best kept country roads imaginable. It 

 is protected from the Yangtze floods by a fine sea-wall at whose base is a deep foreshore 

 much frequented by wildfowl when the wind is Westerly and North Westerly. All round 

 the city are good covers, both reeds and bamboo, and many a tortuous creek furnishes that 

 security of which the pheasant knows so well how to take advantage. Paoshan is a district 



