2 Introduction. 



double-barrelled hammerless guns and generally accompanied by 

 a brace of wild half-bred pointers apiece. These dogs are gallop- 

 ing about in all directions ; and when their masters are not em- 

 ployed whistling and shouting at them ; they (their masters) are 

 affording themselves recreation by firing recklessly at anything 

 and everything, that gets up within a radius of a hundred yards. 



They should therefore on all occasions be avoided, as not being 

 safe or desirable company. 



And here let me mention that one of the great drawbacks to 

 Northern Japan and Russian Tartary shooting, are the mosquitoes, 

 they will bite through almost anything, and they cannot be too 

 highly commended for the quality of their venom, and the assiduity 

 of their attack. The walking also, to say the least of it, is 

 desperately bad. 



