60 GUN, KOD, AND SADDLE. 



being heavy and slow of flight, seldom wild, and 

 very inferior for the table. That night we beat 

 back to Hong Kong harbor, while the stentorian 

 lungs of one of the party, and the key-bugle notes 

 of another, awoke the slumbering echoes of the 

 neighboring hills, and astonished the celestial sea- 



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men, who passed on their various missions, with 

 what " all that bobbery could be." 



Castle Peak, from what I have said, can easily be 

 found by any of the sportsmen at the distant garri- 

 son of Hong Kong; but there are numerous other 

 shooting-grounds as good, and scarcely farther dis- 

 tant, viz., the Shangmoon Valley, at the top of 

 Pirates' Bay, the covers at the top of which always 

 harbor pheasants ; the far side of Meer's Bay, after 

 crossing the Kowloone Ridge, have afforded me 

 many days' excellent sport ; and the nearest end of 

 Llama Island to Victoria, about two or three hours' 

 sail from the Barracks, if occasionally visited, will 

 yield ample remuneration for a few hours' work. 



