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It will, I think, be evident from what has gone before that 



Roumania presents a wide field for tlie visiting sportsman, and, 



if he be anything of a gentleman, all the landfjwners 



_ . will with alacrity place themselves at his disposal, 



Foreigners -^ r 1 ' 



giving him not only sport, but open hospitality. He 



should, however, be careful to direct himself at once to the largest 



landed proprietors of the neighbourhood, and to avoid enlisting the 



peasantry to procuring him the desired sport. With one animal, 



it is true, the foreigner will experience considerable difficulty unless 



he brings with him very strong introductions, and that is the great 



stag of the Carpathians, the extinction of which has been averted 



only with great trouble, so that the animal survives only, as already 



mentioned, on one or two of the finest estates. 



A word, in conclusion, on the subject of our sporting laws. No 



game licence is imposed, permission only being necessary — and that 



only in some parts — from the owner of the land. Some 

 Game Laws. 



years ago game laws were enacted so as to regulate 



(in tabular form) the seasons in which the various beasts and birds 



may be killed. Some few may be shot in the spring, but the regular 



shooting season may be said to last from August 15th to February 



15th. 



