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Admiral and his squadron. All these parties are 

 carried on during the winter. 



Some fine shooting of migratory hirds may be 

 mentioned as a source of amusement during the 

 winter months; but it is confined chiefly to snipe, 

 plover, and wild duck. 



In summer, fishing and boating in the harbour 

 form other recreations. The young men usually get 

 up a regatta on Hamilton Water for saiHng and 

 oared boats, and some very spirited matches take 

 place ; when the adjacent hills and vales are covered 

 by spectators of both sexes, representing the Cau- 

 casian as well as the Ethiopian race, and there are 

 damsels of divers hues, — the sable Venus, the bright 

 mulatto, the delicate mustee, and the fair Bermudan 

 sylph. 



The " Royal Bermuda Yacht Club," too, a little 

 later in the season, usually come out very strong, 

 and afford a great degree of amusement to lovers 

 of aquatic sports. They usually wind up the enter- 

 tainment with a ball to the inhabitants, where the 

 Bermudan fair are seen to great advantage in 

 the dizzy waltz, the graceful polka, or the stately 

 quadrille* 



The far-famed sailing-boats of the Bermudans 

 are rigged with one, and some of them with two 



