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III.— HUNTING 



The only province where there is any huntinL; is Gelderland. 

 where two packs of hounds are found. One consists of thirty French 

 staghounds, bdtards poitevins, hunting roebuck twice a week. The 

 owner and master is Baron W. de Heeckeren. The other is a 

 subscription pack of foxhounds, hunting a drag once a week. At 

 the end of the drag a fox is killed, as in Pau and Rome. The 

 master is Count S. de Stirum. 



IV.— FISHING 



Salmon and trout fishing not beino- obtainable in Holland, owing" 



to the permanently muddy state of the rivers, the only fishes that give 



the angler sport are pike and perch, fished for with 



either the spoon or live bait. Very good specimens are ppr-ch 



got by either method, and a 15-lb. pike and a 3-lb. perch 



are not unusual. I need not describe these universal methods of 



fishing, but there is another method of catching fine pike and perch. 



which I am sure is very little known to Englishmen, as, in fact, my 



own countrymen are not all aware of it. At one time of the year, 



August and September generally, a kind of green weed is found in 



patches on the surface of the canals and ditches (I 



A New ^A/^ay 

 believe the English name is "duck weed"), A short to Catch Pike. 



line is used, and a strong hook baited with a big worm. 



This is moved quickly and lightly on the surface of the weeds, and the 



perch or pike will follow this bait and seize it with great voracity. 



