7 8 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



BROWN'S HOLE. There are snipe on the islands at the mouths 

 of the heck, and a few ducks in the creeks dividing these islands ; 

 hut to get the best duck shooting, it will be better for the guns to 

 divide, land on each bank of the main stream, and walk it right up 



Bags. 



One Gun, August 26th, 1887. Two Guns, September 22nd, 1886. 

 i Deer. 8 Snipe. 12 Duck. 3 Goosanders. 



8 Quail. 3 Pheasant. 6 Snipe. 



4 Pigeons, i Various. 



For salmon fishing, use either the small spoon or the minnow, 

 at the mouth of the big river ; and higher up fish the right branch. 

 In these latter waters salmon trout will take the fly a big river fly 

 with a blue body doing to my knowledge, great execution in the 

 hands of a skilful angler of H.M.S. " Champion." 



Seining is very good ; and I have distinguished the best waters 

 for salmon, with the letter S. There is however an objection to 

 this amusement, caused by the trouble "in hauling the seine"; its 

 meshes getting continually entangled amongst the intricate branches 

 of the numerous submerged and invisible snags. So that it pays 

 to bestow great care in " shooting the net " from the boat. 



I cannot let Olga Bay pass, without mention of a small anecdote 

 connected with my slaying of a deer at that place. It was the 

 first of its kind that I had ever killed, and I was naturally very 

 pleased. There lay the slain but the question was how to get 



