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difficulty in importing rifles and cartridges, which can be more easily 

 smuggled there than at Constantinople, or landed without much 

 trouble opposite Corfu, or off a yacht at any point between San 

 Giovanni di Medua and Prevesa. There is very pretty mixed 

 shooting along the whole coast, consisting of partridges, 

 pheasants, snipe, duck, quail, hare, and in October, _ . 

 November and December the best of woodcock, not 

 to mention wild boar and roedeer. Sportsmen hitherto have 

 mostly confined their operations to Alessio, and Butrinto or other 

 spots opposite Corfu, but the whole seaboard affords splendid chances, 

 especially at the mouths of the rivers and along the course of the 

 Skumbi to Elbassan. 



Scutari is also a capital centre, there being plenty of partridges 

 within half an hour of the town, with quantities of snipe and wood- 

 cock within easy distance in November and December. 



Trout abound in all the streams running into the lakes of Scutari 



and Ochrida, both from the Montenegrin and Albanian side of the 



former. At Rieka I have had pretty baskets, and the markets of 



Scutari and Monastir are well supplied with the big 



^ Trout. 



lake - trout from these two reservoirs. They are 



generally taken with nets, but will also feed greedily on the grass- 

 hopper or minnow. I could never wish for better luck than six 

 weeks with rod and gun in this district between October and 

 Christmas. 



