196 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VATiLEY. 



fallen off sadly, like so many other places, a few days very good sport can be had. Tunglia 

 is a walled city which had been almost entirely destroyed in the Taiping Rebellion, and 

 which even yet has hardly begun to pull itself together again. The best show of pheasants 

 is close round the walls, but both above and below from Dove Point downwards for 20 or 30 

 miles there is fair shooting. The country is easy to work, being low grassy hills with some 

 cultivated fields interspersed. The population is scanty and the people have always been 

 found to be friendly. 



Further down the river, at the bend opposite Jocelyn Island which lies 4 or 5 miles 

 below the city of Ngankin, there is a large tract of very good country. It is of much 

 the same character as Tungliu, but the cover for the most part is thicker and rougher and 

 consequently is not cleared off by the country people so quickly as at the latter place, which 

 is usually quite bare long before the end of the season. 



It would be an interesing trip to shoot down from Ngankin to Wuhu. It is said there is 

 great abundance of game near Tatung i":^ jg), which is one of the stations where steamers 

 stop to land passengers, but not being a place that can conveniently be got at it has been 

 almost unvisited by sportsmen. The "Wild-boar Hills," which lie on this route not far 

 from the river, probably afford scope for this nobler kind of sport. 



