216 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



ration of my remarks relative to the bountiful supply of 

 every description of food, both by sea and land, that a bene- 

 ficent Providence has bestowed upon this favoured country, 

 I shall give a short account of a visit I paid to an English- 

 man (who had realised a handsome fortune by a lotion for 

 improving the complexion), who resided in the vicinity of 

 Quimper, for the purpose of sea fishing with trammel nets 

 amidst a group of islands named les isles des Glenans, a few 

 leagues from Quimper. 



We sailed in a cutter yacht, containing the nets, pro- 

 visions, &c., in the afternoon, and upon arriving at our 

 destination in the evening, we laid down the trammel nets 

 to the extent of several hundred yards in the different 

 channels, which were not very deep, and anchored them with 

 heavy stones, leaving buoys to indicate their positions. Les 

 Glenans are a group of small islands, about three leagues 

 from the coast, quite bare of tree or shrub, and inhabited by 

 a few shepherds, who find a scanty pasturage for their sheep. 

 Enormous quantities of rabbits are bred here, and may be 

 seen in hundreds from a distance, but immediately disappear 

 in their holes on the approach of a human being. 



After leaving our nets in what we considered the most 

 eligible places, we made an attack upon the rabbits with very 

 moderate success, as the ground was so open it was difficult 

 to come upon them by ambuscade, and they all vanished at 

 the report of a gun. We discussed our supper, and spent 

 the night, or rather a few hours' futile attempts at sleep, 

 which myriads of vermin of the flea and bug species most 

 effectually prevented, at a shepherd's hut, and by daybreak 

 were glad, after a delicious bath in the sea, to start in our 

 boats and take up the nets. 



Never shall T forget the " miraculous draught of fishes" 

 that rewarded our labours. Upon gently hauling in the first 

 trammel, the meshes were literally crammed full of fish, 



