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painted by nature's artist with the choicest shade of 

 the most delicate blue. On the bluff at Yoko- 

 hama, Japan, I sat to see the gallant craft depart. 

 Under every stitch of canvas that could be set she 

 stole away, till sails and spars, braces and shrouds, 

 mingled indefinably with the ephemeral haze, and 

 the Camilla became shut out from view as if she 

 had entered into the " spirit land." Her destina- 

 tion was Hakodadi, and only the mermaids, if 

 such there be, or the fishes, if they could speak, 

 can tell how far the beautiful brig got upon that 

 final voyage. 



There are, I hold, sportsmen-naturalists and 

 naturalist-sportsmen. The first look to the sport 

 as the paramount pleasure to be derived, but en- 

 hanced by the beauty and the rarity of the game ob- 

 tained, while the others shoot, enjoying the pleasure 

 of doing so, but getting their greatest reward from 

 classifying and setting up the trophies obtained. 

 Among this last class can be enumerated such 

 celebrities as my friend the late Mr. Blyth, curator 

 of the Calcutta Museum, Sir Cornwallis Harris, and 

 Charles John Andersson ; but I may say of them that 

 their whole lives were devoted to this enthralling 

 study. No, it would be difficult indeed to take 

 rank with these heroes I have just mentioned ; but 

 among the officers of the United Services there are 

 many, very many, individuals indeed who can 

 justly be considered sportsmen-naturalists, and in 

 this rank, no branch of the service produces more, 

 than the Royal Navy. 



