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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WA VS 
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rhododendrons near the tops of the mountains; 
I several times heard their sudden rush and 
caught sight of them only for one instant, but 
I could not fire. 
There was excellent pike and perch fishing 
in the Sabanja lake, and at the expiration of our 
visit I determined if possible to renew my 
acquaintance with the people and their delightful 
wilderness. Fate has led me into various portions 
of the world since then, and in twenty-nine years 
there may have been a change that has driven 
the animals away. 
About 4 or 5 miles from Ismid there was a 
capital snipe marsh, and the wild-rose thickets 
upon the border were full of woodcocks. The 
Greeks were professional chasseurs for the supply 
of Constantinople, as the daily steamer conveyed 
the birds to market in ten or eleven hours. These 
fellows used pointers, trained expressly; each 
dog wore a bell upon its collar, therefore when 
there was a cessation of jingling, the master 
knew that his dog was on a point. It is my 
opinion that the best companions for a person who 
is fond of sport in general are a brace of first- 
class clumber spaniels thoroughly broken not 
to chase, and never to hunt more than 20 yards 
in advance of the gun. Such dogs will discover 
a quantity of game, which would never be moved 
by a person unprovided with such assistants. It 
is a common occurrence that people disbelieve in 
the existence of game simply because they do 
