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I ao Id hopes It will not be necesBary to chase the breeding birds 
here any more, as 1 have done this season, at least, the report of a gun 
should be prevented. 
ITJH7IHG. 
I an infomsd by the federal officials at IXiloo, and others, that 
the Indians nnvor hunt at the iaices. They cure nothing for the birds, it 
is said, to eat, nor us sport for the hunting. But while people oome great 
distances to hunt the waterfowl, even from other states, and the vast num- 
ber of empty shells at the many blinds and along the shores are proof of the 
slaughter that takes 2 >lHoe. 
I desire to embody this thought in this report: The inhabitants 
rearely, if ever, decrease the ffasne supx)ly where they live. Those in suoh 
localities are not generally well supplied with ammunition, so they use 
Judgment, are usually dead-shots and kill only when food is needed, while 
the from the city has a supply of ammunition, and shoots at anything, 
generally, regardless of distance or opportunity, hence usually one lialf of 
the game is never gotten. The great number of duck oarcasses here is proof 
of the waste. The hunting, if done in a reasonably way, would not decrease 
the game supply to any great extent. 
The oharaoter of the lake and surNundings is peculiarly adapted to 
killing the fowl, since the lake is chopped and out by hills and ridges, 
several hunters having scattered over these, brings the birds to their mercy, 
which is very soant. There oould be nothing worse than this club cabin on the 
shore with no one for miles to interfere. 
