Hunting Notes of a Bushman. 
By Michael McTurk. 
*ISITORS to the colony, after being inland, 
often remark on the apparent scarcity of game 
and the absence of all animal-life in the forest. 
This impression is natural for many reasons, the two 
chief of which are that these visitors neither go to the 
right places nor at the proper times to find anything. 
Few countries are so covered with forest as is British 
Guiana ; and, whereas in other countries the game has 
only comparatively small patches of cover in which to 
hide, here the whole country affords one large cover, 
extending without break for over a hundred miles, as 
far as the open savannahs and mountains of the inte- 
rior. To find game, either bird or beast, the sportsman 
must be in the forest as soon as there is light enough by 
which to see ; and he must know not only the trees on the 
fruit of which the birds or beasts he seeks feed, but also 
where these trees are to be found. In some localities 
there are no fruit-bearing trees of the right kinds ; and 
in such places game of all kinds is very scarce. Another 
drawback to the European sportsman is his dress; his coat, 
