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Cripps returned from their shooting excursion, chap. 
XI 
bringing- with tliem a plentiful stock of game. ^ -^-'- j 
The quantity around Salonica, judging only f^^lij^ 
from the description they gave of the day's sport, ^"^ ^"''" 
must be great indeed. It consists 0^ pheasants; 
both red and grey partridges, the former being as 
large as pullets ; hares, woodcocks, snipes, wild- 
fowl, quails, &c. All the Frank inhabitants are, 
consequently, sportsmen. The Albanian sports- 
men practise the old method of shooting with a 
stalking-horse ; that is to say, by carrying the 
picture of a horse or of a cow, behind which 
they conceal themselves, and thence take aim 
at their unsuspecting prey through a hole in the 
picture. Their method of killing quails is the 
same as that practised by the native inhabitants 
of the Crimea : they knock them down vdth 
sticks as soon as they rise, and are very dex- 
trous in so doing. All sorts of provisions are 
Mr. Ftott, who has since visited Salonica, says of it, in one of his letters 
to a friend setting out for Greece : " Here you will see the best and 
most pleasing of sights,' — an honest, open-hearted Englishman, 
Mr. Charyiaud, who will shake you manfully by the hand, and give 
you a hearty welcome. For the rest, Salonica is famous for Jews, 
Jilth, and fecundity. Every family, especially every Consular family, 
exhibits from six to ten children, mostly girls. Take eare that some 
of them do not weaken your national prejudices for the antient Creek, 
and insensibly inspire you with a far greater admiration for the 
suavity of the modern." 
