no Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



And a doubly sweet place we found it ; not only for its excellent 

 anchorage and lovely scenery, but also for the pleasure of a very 

 pretty morning's pheasant shooting it afforded, on ground within 

 five hundred yards of where the ship lay snugly at her anchors ; 

 with the now raging typhoon, roaring and shrieking amongst the 

 deep mountain gorges, high over our devoted heads. 



For myself, I landed alone on the sunny side of the bay, marked on 

 the accompanying map ; and in two hours, put up altogether 

 eighteen pheasants, bagging five brace ; several of the other birds 

 rose out of shot, and I was also most unlucky in some of my 

 " places." 



The best coverts to work, are the edges of the bamboo groves, 

 and #//the ripe paddy fields, especially those adjoining the groves and 

 tea plants. In the afternoon, I foolishly walked round the head of 

 the bay, and tried the other hillsides, but although I saw a few birds 

 I did but little good ; and had I only stuck to the rice fields in the 

 environs of the other villages, on the original side, I might 

 perchance have trebled the bag. 



One thing should always be remembered in this shooting ; that it 

 is perfectly useless trying paddy fields undergoing irrigation. 



The enormous deer walls will be found a terrible nuisance? 

 especially with a dog ; as it necessitates constantly lifting that thirty 

 or forty pounds of canine flesh, six or seven feet in the air ; which 

 naturally expends a great quantity of your strength, besides making 



