Sporting Notes in the Far East. 1 05 



There are some small salmon fry, netted and sold by the natives 

 here, that are excellent eating. 



YOKOHAMA. 



Moderate indeed, very moderate : is the shooting within the 

 vicinity of Yokohama. In fact one may say, that practically, it is 

 almost entirely played out ; never to be resuscitated ! 



Certainly there are yet a few snipe to be shot in the season, but 

 the lordly cock pheasants and their mates, are few and far between. 



For snipe shooting at the beginning of the season : I would 

 propose journeying to a village called Shirako, situated thirteen 

 miles beyond Tokio ; start by the earliest train from Yokohama, 

 (your dog will have to go in the van), get out at Tokio, and rickshaw 

 out. It will take about two hours and a half, along a fair road 

 with a two-man rickshaw, to reach your destination ; a long drive 

 perhaps ; but putting aside the shooting, you are almost repaid the 

 time, trouble, and expense, by the prospect of the beautiful country 

 that the road traverses. 



Put up at the principal tea house ; the shooting will be found in 

 the long cultivated valley that stretches away to the right, as you 

 enter the hamlet. 



I was out here on the i5th October, '87, and shot a few snipe ; 

 and had I only had the ground to myself, I feel confident that I 

 should have made quite a presentable bag. But this was not to 



