102 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



the never to be forgotten sound pastures and wide spreading vales, 

 of a flying country, away in Merrie England. 



SAPPARO. 



Sapparo is celebrated for its noted salmon river. But the 

 season only lasts, I understand, six weeks; (from the middle of May 

 till the end of June), and then the stream is so frightfully netted, 

 that a rod and line is not of much use. These salmon when they 

 do come up, must be in enormous numbers ; as they say that 

 during the winter, dried salmon forms the principal staple of 

 food, for all the villages situated on the banks. And if the carcass 

 of a dried fish, is any criterion of its size ; some of them must reach 

 a great weight. 







ANDO BAY. 



When away shooting ! from this anchorage ; you will require the 

 attendance of a boat all day, in order to ferry across the river 

 when necessary : it being too deep to wade. 



Facing the town, the river is on the right ; land at the mouth, 

 and walk up \hz proper left bank ; you will get a few shots at snipe 

 on the way, and just before reaching a village called Tananbe, 

 (marked on the Admiralty chart), there is a creek which will 

 probably have some duck and teal on it; this creek is easily 



