130 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



We have however the satisfaction of leaving behind us one boon 

 to the natives : they were taught the art of growing " spuds." 



FUSAN. 



On Deer Island, a large island just off the usual anchorage, 

 there are both deer and pheasants, but being successful with the 

 former is a matter of great chance, as the portion of the island 

 where they most do congregate, is so entirely overgrown, that it 

 makes locomotion extremely hard, to say nothing of the impossibi- 

 lity of seeing to shoot. With the pheasants things are not quite so 

 complicated, they being fonder of the rich cultivated ground 

 around the villages, than the scrub. 



Land on Deer Island close by the footpath that can easily be 

 distinguished running straight up the hill, and when it turns sharp 

 to the left, follow it, and go neither to the right nor to the left till 

 it leads you out to a spot when you can overlook a village, situated 

 at the base of a hill below you, and close to the .beach ; then quit 

 the path, and strike straight down for the tilled ground around the 

 hamlet. 



The pheasants are all in the millet (dark broad leaves, with 

 stems ending in large heads), and the rice fields can therefore be 

 avoided as not worth trying. 



The birds do not appear to 'mind the close proxirrtity of the native 

 huts and their inmates in the least, and the best plan is to move 



