200 SPORTDTG IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



CHAPTER XV. 



BRITTANY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE FINISTERRE QUIMPERLE SHOOTING 



TROUT AND SALMON FISHING MY FIRST SALMON ENCOUNTER WITH 



A BRETON SEA-FISHING AT THE ISLES DES GLENANS DRUIDICAL 

 REMAINS DEPARTURE. 



How many agreeable souvenirs are associated in my recol- 

 lection with this curious and romantic country, which, at 

 the period of my visit, was by far more a terra incognita than 

 it is at present, particularly the departments of the Mor- 

 bihan and the Finisterre, which, before the days of steam and 

 rail, it required some time and fatigue to approach, and, 

 save by the wandering sportsman or the practical economist, 

 were rarely visited by British tourists. Travellers generally 

 stopped short at St. Malo or Dinant, where they met with 

 pretty scenery and agreeable society at a cheap rate, and 

 rarely penetrated into the wild and romantic recesses of the 

 Chouan and the Celt. 



Animated and encouraged by some most favourable 

 accounts of woodcock and red partridge shooting, and sal- 

 mon and trout fishing, as well as the excellence and extreme 

 cheapness of living in certain departments of the Bas Bre- 

 tagne, I determined to ascertain the truth of some of those 

 wonderful tales I had heard, and with this view sailed, or 

 rather steamed by the route of Southampton and Jersey to 

 St. Malo, in October, 18 . Having arrived at that place, I 

 shall not fatigue the reader by expatiating upon the excel- 

 lence of Goguet's* cuisine or Goguet's claret, but leave that 



* A celebrated hotel-keeper at St. Malo, and once cook to the late Lord 

 Sefton. 



