CHAPTEE VIII. 



A PERILOUS AND EXCITING ADVENTURE ON THE 

 MED WAT RIVER AT BANG'S FALLS. 



I HAD been having one of those successful 

 and enjoyable experiences on the head waters 

 of the Medway, at the foot of Ponhook Lake, 

 in the third week in June, elsewhere related 

 in this book, when business required me to go, 

 one afternoon, to a small settlement four 

 miles below Greenfield, known to all fisher- 

 men on that river as Bang's Falls. The pool 

 which gives this place its name is amongst the 

 choicest of the many excellent ones on that 

 stream. The water is deep, the river not 

 wide, and there are many resting-places for 

 salmon after facing the long heavy rapids just 

 before. The Falls themselves may be said to 

 be double, the water dropping furiously over a 

 first reef on to a lap-reef below, then rushing 



