2 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



enjoy again, many good days' shooting in lands 

 where game laws are not — not that, by the way, 

 this is the case in Dalmatia. Moreover, he went 

 on to speak in flowing terms of the sport attain- 

 able in Bosnia and the Herzegovina, and I could 

 not believe that none of the bears, wolves, and 

 other beasts, which he spoke of as existent there, 

 ever crossed the frontier.* Another authority, 

 also German, said there were plenty of water- 

 fowl, and also stonehens (Steinhuhner) . What 

 these were I could not guess, unless ptarmigan 

 (Schneehuhner) were meant. This same writer 

 said the jackal was to be found on some of the 

 islands ; but although he is doubtless a rare beast 

 in Western Europe, I could hardly fancy myself 

 treating my old friend the jack as food for "vil- 

 lanous saltpetre " after the many pleasant gallops 

 he had provided in bygone years. I was surprised, 

 though, to find that neither of them mentioned 

 the boar as an inhabitant of the district, knowing 

 what good bags of these animals the Corfu garri- 

 son, in the days when it was an English possession, 

 used to make on the Albanian coast. 



After all, sport was really a secondary con- 

 sideration, as it often must be when ladies form 

 part of an expedition. 



* Ultimately, as will appear hereafter, we had to give up 

 all hopes of the visit to the Dinaric Alps, which formed part 

 of our original programme. 



