132 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



Two days leave is necessary. Go in a junk and if the sportsman 

 is not adverse to donning Corean habiliments, plenty of good shots 

 at geese may be obtained. I have also heard, that in winter when 

 most of the verdure is down, there is some really good pheasant 

 shooting somewhere near Fusan ; but where the Elysium is, I have 

 unfortunately never been quite able to find out. 



Bag. 



2 Guns. Deer Island, September i8th, 1887. 

 8 Pheasants. 2 Various. 



Before concluding, I must not forget to caution strangers against 

 the native deer-pits ; as besides being most unpleasant receptacles 

 to fall into, they also have the disadvantage of being almost 

 undetectable. 



The trap itself is a very simple contrivance ; consisting of a 

 circular hole of about five feet in diameter, and ten feet deep, cut 

 either in the best used deer-runs, or in the most likely looking 

 gaps in the primitive fences. 



In the bottom of the pit is embedded in an upright position with 

 point uppermost, a stout sharpened bamboo about three feet long ; 

 the mouth of the trap is then carefully covered over with sticks 

 and thatch, and the whole sprinkled with loose earth and leaves. 



The deer come down from the hills at night to feed, and 

 create havoc in the farmer's cornfield. In passing over the frail 

 platform that conceals the pitfall, his weight breaks through, and 



