1 86 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



started him off, two days before the date that we wished him to 

 meet us at Macao. We left for Macao by afternoon steamer : 

 passage occupying three and a half hours : (single fare three 

 dollars. 



Landed at Macao in the evening, and dined at " Hing-Kee's " 

 hotel, the only one of its kind in this wretched, broken down, 

 Portuguese settlement. 



After dinner we got on board the boat, and started up the creek 

 above Macao, for a village called Moi-poo, twelve miles distant. 



The hakka boat held our three mattresses, laid side by side, 

 very comfortably : and in the morning we woke to find ourselves on 

 the shooting ground. 



Shot on both sides of the main creek, finding the ground on 

 the right hand side looking up the creek, and near the stone bridge, 

 the best. 



The walking was very bad, deep wet paddy with long stubble : 

 but there were plenty of snipe, which quite made up for the extra 

 hard work. Here I may mention, that .when shooting in this 

 locality, it is most necessary to have a retriever of some sort ; 

 the straw of the paddy is so long, and so very often laid, it is most 

 difficult to find dead birds without a dog. We took all our own 

 food and liquor. For an appropriate outfit to take on this trip, 

 I cannot do better than refer the reader to the previous notes, 

 on an " up country trip above Shanghai." 



