NOTES ON THE NEARER LYING SHOOTING DISTRICTS. 



little known to the foreigner although so near to hand, but the railway, now bringing it to 

 within an hour of Shanghai will, doubtless, make it a popular resort. It is an ideal spot 

 for a picnic and one can always get there a sniff of the salt sea air. 



4.-KAJOW (i^ fg). "High Bridge." 



The Kajow Creek is on the right bank of the Whangpoo, distant about 30 // from 

 Shanghai. The town of Kajow is some two miles up the Creek, and forms a good point of 

 departure to the sea-wall, about three miles to the Northward in a fairly direct line. Early 

 in the season — that is, in October and part of November — the numerous graves are clothed 

 with high grass and are a favourite resort of pheasants, and, when about, woodcocks seem 

 rather to affect the copses and creek banks. The country is a dead flat, divided into big 

 square areas by small creeks eight to ten feet wide, which tax the jumping powers of all 

 but the most active sportsmen. These same ditches and creeks, however, are a great 

 protection to the hares which are so frequently met with on the Pootung promontory. In 

 fact, one is more likely to pick up a brace or two of hares in a day in this neighbourhood 

 than during a three weeks' trip in some of the favourite shooting districts. According to 

 the nature of the crops and to the dampness of the ground are snipes in their seasons to be 

 found, and some very large bags of spring birds have been made at one time or another 

 between the town of Kajow and the Whangpoo. 



5.— Battery Creek (^ p). "East Creek." 



This creek is nearly opposite to the Point Hotel, and is 16 // from Shanghai. The 

 country presents much the same appearance, and is of almost the same nature, as that 

 around Kajow except, perhaps, that it does not boast of so many creeklets. A patient, 

 hardworking gun need seldom leave this neighbourhood without a small but varied bag. 

 Leaving Shanghai early in the morning and returning in the evening one can get a very 

 pleasant day's outing if the tides serve. 



6.— Changsha (;|| ?j)). "Pebble River." 



Chang sha is a walled city on an inner sea-wall at the end of the Pak-lin-king Creek 

 very generally misnamed the Arsenal Creek, and about 45 // from Shanghai. Three high 

 embankments or walls have to be crossed before the estuary of the Yangtze is reached. 

 There is not, as a rule, much game to be picked up, but if the weather is roughish from an 

 Easterly wind, wildfowl often fly inland and seek the shelter of the protected creeks. 



All the way down the Creek there are on both sides some fine copses which, 

 often harbouring a woodcock or two, may repay the sportsman's attention. 



7.-SAKONG (?5 ll) "Stone River." 



Sakong is a village on the right bank of the Whangpoo, 60 // from Shanghai, in a 

 nearly due South direction. On both sides of the Sakong Creek capital cover is to be 

 found, and a large reed bed on the East side furnishes a safe retreat for pheasants. On 

 the West are patches of broken ground from which a fair number of birds are taken in the 

 course of the season. But Sakong is, as a rule, rather neglected by gunners, who prefer 



