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CHAPTER VIII. 



SHOOTING, ETC. 



Wandering one day in Yesso over the low slopes of 

 country which stretched away from the hills to the sea, 

 with here and there swamps and marshy ground, which 

 alone broke the long rolling slopes of rank gi'ass, I was 

 in hopes of picking up a few of the large species of 

 snipe, and a hare, or other small game. Some half-a- 

 dozen snipe I had already bagged. As at any moment 

 in this wild island, when a short distance from the few 

 inhabitants, bear or deer may be met with, I always 

 had a few bullets ready to slip down my old muzzle- 



