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dog found, and put up, several pheasants, on the large hill covered 

 with conspicuous black fir trees ; it stands back about one and a 

 half miles above the village, which lies in the centre of the valley 

 higher up. Unfortunately the cover is so dense, that although I 

 could hear those birds getting up all round, I was unable to manage 

 one single fair shot. 



One day I devoted myself solely to quail, and managed to pick 

 up eight and a half couple, in the long dead grass, growing in the 

 dry disused bed, of the aforementioned, would-be river. 



Hire of a three-man jinrickshaw for the day, two yen, twenty cents. 



Bag. 



i Gun, December 3131, 1888. 

 4 Pheasants. i Woodcock. 



8 Quail. i Pigeon. 



There are a few other places, that I might mention, where a 

 little sport may be got, viz. : 



BIMBOOKI. A place beyond Akashi, altogether seven hours from 

 Kobe in a two-man rickie ; it is a forty-eight hours undertaking. 

 When there, stop at a tea-house, where you will get doubtful 

 directions ; but what you really have to do, is to shoot back over 

 the hills towards Akashi. 



MIKHO. A village the Kobe side of Akashi ; get out, and shoot 

 home over the high ground. 



In this shooting, birds pheasants more particularly aiways get 



