78 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



Portrieux, which is in Lower Brittany, They 

 will whip you over in about six hours, at the 

 large cost of five francs (4s.) From Portrietix 

 you may easily get to any of the following 

 places, for a few francs, but there are innume- 

 rable little bourgs, or villages, which I cannot 

 remember the names of now : Pontrieu, Pam- 

 pol, Trequer, Lannion, Guingamp, Belle Isle en 

 terre, St. Brieux, Morlaix, Landernau, Quimper,. 

 Quimperle and Carhaix. It would be here quite 

 impossible for me to name all the places, but 1 

 have given the names of a few towns where all 

 information may be obtained. At Guingamp 

 there is very decent salmon fishing, and the 

 other places are good for trout. I am told they 

 are for salmon, too, but I was so disgusted with 

 the salmon fishing at Quimper, that I never 

 tried any place but Guingamp, and that was 

 before I went to Quimper. 



You must not belie ye what Frenchmen tell 

 you regarding sport of any kind. I never met 

 a Frenchman in my life returning from fishing 

 but he told me he had been " tres heureux ! plu- 

 sieurs douzaines belles truites, mon cher, sans 

 blague" though perhaps he had not one, or ever 



