the Bahamas,” so he and Capt. Malone 
went back to the boat. 
Thompson and I started on with 
Pommie, and visited three more ponds 
before we were finally rewarded. We 
passed out into the open where the land 
grew more swampy, and the mangroves 
not quite so thick. The water was 
about knee-deep and the grass about 
waist high. Nearly a mile to the west 
of us we could see hundreds of cranes, 
white, blue, brown and mixed colors, 
flying up and alighting about on the 
bushes around the pond. I said cranes, 
for that is what they are called over 
there, but they resemble the ganet 
found in our Florida and Louisiana 
swamps, as they are much smaller than 
our cranes. However, be that as it 
may, the Bahamians state they are fine 
eating. I have no doubt they are, but 
nevertheless I believe I would prefer 
something else. 
Although as stated above, we were 
nearly a mile from the pond, we could 
hear the ducks feeding. The only time 
I ever saw so many ducks at one time 
was on the Indiana River where they 
congregate by the thousands during the 
winter months. 
We walked as fast as we could until 
within about 500 yards of the pond, 
and then crawled on our hands and 
knees where the water would permit. 
However, we might have spared our- 
selves this trouble for the ducks had 
not been molested and it was not very 
difficult to approach them. If it had 
been, it is problematical whether or 
not we would have fared so well, our 
duck hunting experience being limited. 
However, we got our positions around 
the pond, and at a signal opened fire. 
Even Pommie did good work with his 
old single barreled gun of “most any 
make.” We got several shots apiece at 
them before they all left the pond. The 
water was quite shallow, not over three 
feet deep in most places, and Pommie 
soon had our ducks piled up on the 
bank, twenty-six in all. As you can 
imagine, we felt well repaid for that 
trip through the mangroves. 
It was not nearly so difficult going 
back, as we made a bee-line for the 
beach, and then followed it around to 
where we left the motor boat. After a 
lunch we started back, and reached 
home at 3:30 P. M., just in time to do 
justice to our Christmas dinner. 
We had the laugh on Doc and Capt. 
Tom that afternoon, but it was they 
who laughed next morning. It was a 
rather difficult operation for us to get 
out of bed, and if it hadn’t been for our 
pride, I think we would have called on 
Doe in his professional capacity. 

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