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down in the hope of securing a meal. The 
ducks, with beating wings and noisy quacking, 
flutter twenty yards away to safety, leaving their 
wounded comrade to his fate. 
Vultures, hawks, kestrels, and sparrowhawks 
have congregated from the four corners of the 
sky in the vicinity of the lake, and are waiting, 
watching, now hovering on outstretched wing, 
now swooping down on a stricken duck, but 
tirelessly watching for the wounded birds which 
they know must inevitably fall to their share. 
The dug-outs, containing some natives armed 
with old carbines and blank ammunition, having 
paddled laboriously to within a hundred yards 
of the ducks packed on the center of the lake, 
discharged a harmless but noisy salvo. Once 
again the distracted ducks take wing, rising in 
a cloud with vociferous quackings. Confusion 
reigns supreme—pell-mell they fly from the new 
danger straight back to the old, and the motion¬ 
less gunners, who, knee-deep and sometimes 
waist-deep in water, have been watching the 
tediously approaching dug-outs creeping up to 
the ducks, are now in the thick of it, enjoying 
to the full the reward of patience. At last, 
weary of flight under a broiling sun, the duck, 
reckless of danger, come dropping back in ones 
and twos into the rushes round the edges of the 
lake. 
Now has come the time to alter the plan of 
campaign and to adopt new tactics. Boldly ad¬ 
vancing from the shelters, one walks slowly 
through the rush-covered shallows, talking as 
if no game were within hearing; the weary duck 
swim hard away from the advancing intruders 
upon their privacy, trusting to their own swim¬ 
ming powers and to the rushes and weeds to 
carry them out of danger, and to keep them 
hidden from view. But long legs, in spite of 
clogging mud and deep water, travel over the 
ground faster than the ordinary duck can swim 
through sedge and weed, and it is only a ques¬ 
tion of time for the proximity of the men to 
become so terrifying that the frightened duck, 
acknowledging himself beaten in one element, is 
tempted to try his luck in the other in order to 
escape that unseen but slowly approaching 
terror. With a startled quack he takes wing, 
and, rising above the friendly rushes, is at once 
seen, and falls to a well-timed shot. This shoot¬ 
ing lasts only during the heat of the day; as 
soon as the cool evening breezes commence to 
blow (about 4 p. m.), and the sun has lost his 
sting, the ducks will boldly leave the lake for 
pastures new. 
Malcolm and I lunched together on the west 
side of the lake under a big tree; we had 
marked it down at starting as being roughly 
halfway between our stations. Sammy and 
Charles never met till tea-time, in spite of hav¬ 
ing arranged a meeting to compare notes. 
By 4:30 p. m. we had all assembled at our 
camp. Warm baths and flannels were then the 
order of the day. Hot tea and toast made us 
feel stronger men. There was nothing to do 
now but read and smoke till six o’clock, when 
the flight shooting commenced. 
Our combined bag up to tea-time was 317 
duck, 27 teal, 11 widgeon, 7 cotton teal, 17 par¬ 
tridges, 21 quail, 107 snipe, I green pigeon, 2 
blue rocks, 1 hare, and 1 black buck, making a 
total of 511. The flight shooting, which was of 
the best while in progress, lasted but twenty 
minutes. The ducks came in over the bund in 
grand style, dashing over the trees and out over 
the lake like arrows from a bow. It meant quick 
shooting and holding well in front. The light 
failed us quite suddenly, the typical tropical twi¬ 
light. We picked up ninety-two birds, which 
brought our grand total up to 602 head, besides 
a hare and a black buck.—S. H. C., in the Field. 
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