NOTES ON THE NEARER LYING SH(X)TING DISTRICTS. 11 



intersected by a creek running from East to West. On the North side and within the 

 walls is a long stretch of rubble grounds much in favour with pheasants at evening time. 

 On the East side of the City is a great graveyard, and on the North a series of copses 

 bordering a fine broad waterway — covers seldom beaten in vain. The land on the South 

 of the City, including a long reed bed and a graveyard — gruesome memento of the 

 Rebellion— is usually shot over as the house-boats wind round the walls. At the West 

 gate is a broad creek running South well worth working, as is also the big waterway to 

 Bingoo. 



Kashing (^ H). "Excellent Prosperity." 



Kashing, 237 // from Shanghai and 36 from Kazay, is deservedly a very popular 

 shooting centre. A few years ago fair sport was to be had among the ruins and rubble 

 at the East of the City, but these are now being rapidly improved off the ground for the 

 macadamisation of the roads of the " Model Settlement." Good shooting is to be found at 

 Chuleway {X Sg M) and Sintung (§j Tfl), or Sinzang as it is sometimes called, to the 

 North- West ; in the Tamen Creek ; at Dongkiajow, at the North end of the once Big Plain ; 

 between Tamen Bridge and Poyu, on the South of the Grand Canal; and again further 

 westward from Chungkiajow to Sunjow. A bag might easily include pheasants, teal, duck, 

 bamboo partridges, snipes, woodcocks, quails, golden plover, lapwings and possibly deer ; 

 but these last are now almost things of the past. 



Leaving the small lake at the South of the City you enter the Haiee Creek (M H), a 

 broad and straight piece of water, running in a S.S.E. direction. 30 li down is Sweedong 

 {M W> ^), well remembered by the two high stone arched bridges close together. There is 

 good shooting ground all round, especially on the West hand, on the two creeks leading to 

 Poyu. Though the sweet potato vines, which are highly cultivated here, are a safe shelter 

 for pheasants, their long tendrils so hamper the shooter that he is rather glad than 

 otherwise when a friendly stubble field gives him easier walking. There is not much 

 shooting further south until you pass Esingjow, and steer abruptly east to Haiee, some 20 // 

 distant. A suggestive country lies on either side of this lovely creek, great grass fields, fine 

 copses, ponds, generally good food crops, and the protection afforded by numberless creeks. 



To the North of Kashing, beyond Sintung, there is not much in the way of sport, as 

 the whole country is given over to mulberry cultivation. 



I6.-HAIEE {m fii). "Sea Salt." 



This walled city, still bearing traces of the Rebellion, is on the Hangchow Bay, in the 

 centre of as fair a country as one could well wish to see. To the South lies a large grass 

 plain dotted with copses, extending to the foot of the Wongdahien hills. Formerly it was 

 prolific with game, and the writer remembers once seeing nineteen different kinds for sale in 

 the open market in the City. In the spring capital snipe shooting may be had, and during 

 a hard winter a good bag of wildfowl might be made without difficulty ; while the great sea 

 wall affords an unrivalled opportunity for flight shooting had the gunner only the patience 

 to give it a trial. But the sportsman may always look forward to a delightfully varied bag 

 —pheasant, deer, woodcock, bamboo partridge, hare, duck, widgeon, teal, snipe, quail, and, 



