SPORT AND TRAVEL 3 



made up my mind to have a couple of months' hunt- 

 ing in Asia Minor in the following autumn, but act- 

 ing on Mr. J. W.'s advice, delayed deciding upon my 

 route until I had communicated with his brother, who 

 was shortly expected in Constantinople on his way 

 home from a visit to England. However, he had not 

 arrived before I left Turkey, and I thought I should 

 have to get all my information by letter, when, most 

 strangely and most fortunately, we met in the Hotel 

 Metropole, in Vienna, where at the same time I 

 found two South African friends from the Transvaal. 

 Mr. W. was travelling with his wife and mother, the 

 former of whom had already accompanied her hus- 

 band on some of his hunting trips, of which she gave 

 my wife the most fascinating descriptions. The net 

 result of this most fortunate meeting in the Vienna 

 hotel was that, early in the following September, 

 my wife and I found ourselves at Bournabat, near 

 Smyrna, the guests of our most kind and hospitable 

 friends. 



At this time the weather was excessively hot, and it 

 was rather too early in the season to go after deer, 

 so I prepared to make a preliminary journey into 

 the interior of the country in the hope of coming 

 across mountain ranges frequented by wild goats, ar- 

 ranging to return to Smyrna in time to accompany 

 Mr. and Mrs. W. to a well-known haunt of the red 

 deer early the following month. Owing to the great 

 heat, my wife did not accompany me on this first 



