94 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



the scrub and dwarf trees lying on the low hills, which form the 

 chief feature of this particular ground. 



I think that nothing worthy of note occurred at any time, while I 

 was here ; except that a signalman of H.M.S. Wanderer, in '86, 

 while on shore as " cartridge carrier " to one of his officers, made 

 the extraordinary shot of killing a flying pheasant with a "450 Martini 

 Henri rifle bullet. 



Bags. 

 2 Guns, August i8th, 1886. 



30 Snipe. 



Shooting parties of two ships in Expedition Bay, August, 1886. 

 75 Pheasants amongst other things. 



AWIMA BAY, SAGALIEN ISLAND. 



Not much good for shooting ; but the trout fishing in the 

 river, and the herring seining on the beach, are both unsur- 

 passible. 



I have never personally visited this place, but one of its 

 reminiscences is well impressed on my memory ; as it was while 

 on shore at Awima, that an officer of one of our big cruisers had 

 the good fortune, after a most sanguinary encounter, to exterminate 

 a most enormous bear. 



Great was the chaff about this bear. 



The mighty hunter being of abnormal statue, and of massive 



