88 LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 



to this day there is a colony of Catholics dwelling in 

 Knoydart with all the well-known characteristics of the 

 Spanish race. 



To my mind there is but one drawback to West Coast 

 sport — that is the weather, for once let it break, and then 

 there is no telling how long it may continue to rain. 

 I have on one occasion seen it fine every day for a whole 

 month, but in an experience of many years I have several 

 times known pelting rain to fall every day for four or five 

 weeks in succession, which was only made more provoking 

 by the nights being brightly starlight. Whether this 

 phenomenon can be accounted for on any meteorological 

 and scientific data we never troubled to enquire, though 

 now that I rarely visit the wild West Coast, I often 

 wonder if this matter of wet days with fine nights can 

 have any explanation except pure " cussedness " on the 

 part of the Clerk of the Weather. 



The sport of the West Coast is almost endless in its 

 variety, for, setting aside the pursuit of game with the 

 gun, the fishes, porpoises, otters, and the wild birds in 

 the time of their migration are ever inviting the attention 



