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from a dozen to twenty or thirty woodcock. Candilli, on the opposite 

 side of the Bosphorus, over against Bebek, is also an easy pkice to 

 get to, and a tolerably sure find, but the covert is thick and the hills 

 steep. 



Wild boar and roedeer abound between the Gulf of Ismidt 



BAG AT CHAOUSH CHIFTLIK, JANUARY isr, iS 

 (Eighleen Wild Boar and two Deer) 



and the Black Sea. A part of the Belgrade Forest is preserved 

 by Abram Pasha, but there is no longer any con- 



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derable head of oame there. Cherif Pasha, the 



Boar and 

 Roedeer. 



present Ottoman Minister at Stockholm, also preserves 

 at Chaoush Chifdik, on the Gulf of Ismidt, and the record bags 

 of wild boar have been made on his property. I myself was one 

 of a party which in one afternoon, one day, and a couple of hours 

 the following morning, killed eighteen pig, two roedeer, and a 

 few dozen cock. The heaviest pig on that occasion weighed 102 

 kilos clean. The heaviest I have shot weighed 125, and measured 



