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been under the special charge of Mr. Charles Schuman, 
who has labored hard for a long time to make it a success. 
He has met with many difficulties, far greater than would 
be supposed by any one not familiar with the work to be 
done and the delicate nature of its management,” 
—}° 
SIBYLLINE LEAVES. 
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HINTS TO WOODSMEN. 
2 ie 
HE sportsman can, if need be, forego nearly every ap- 
pliance of civilization, and by learning the ways of 
the savages, live and enjoy life as the savages do. The 
bark of the birch or hemlock will make him a shanty and 
furnish him with clean plates and cups, which need no 
washing after use; cedar roots will supply twine and rope; 
he can bake his fish and bread in the ashes and broil his 
meat on a stick, and provided he only has sufficiently warm 
clothing, a trusty gun, a hatchet, matches, and compass, 
he has the measure of his necessities full. Waiving luxu- 
rious comforts, it is always desirable to travel as lighty as 
possible and as little encumbered, especially if the tramp 
be long and continuous and not broken by occasional tem- 
porary camps. Nevertheless, experience teaches that the 
trouble of carrying an extra pair of walking-boots, or at 
least a pair of moccasins or easy shoes, is well repaid. The 
least inconvenient dress is a woollen overshirt with pock- 
ets, worn as a blouse and fastened around the waist with a 
sash or belt. The toe of a stocking fitted into the shirt 
makes a good pocket, if you have none already. A heavy 
Hudson’s Bay or Canadian overcoat, with hood, serves as 
coat, blanket, pillow, and cap combined. Always carry 
plenty of twine and large needles. If a piece of your 
clothing is torn.out, patch it with anything available. The 
legs of a boot make the best possible seat for a pair of 
trowsers, and can be as easily fitted as woollen stuff. If 
your felt hat is too loose, put a stick under the band and 
give ita half turn. If you wantacandle-stick make a loop 
of birch bark and slip the ends into the slit, and then insert 
yourtallow dip. If you wish a torch, take sheets of birch 
bark and slip them in the slit. A pine knot is better than 
either where no danger is apprehended from fire. If your 
matches are wet, and it rains heavily you can find bits of 
dry punk in the excrescences under the bark of birch and 
mapletrees, flash powder into lint or tow and then ignite 
the punk. Hither fire powder from your gun or use a flint 
and steel. If lost in a hardwood forest and can find no 
water, one can generally get sap enough for a drink by cut- 
ting a chip out of a maple or birch and making a spout to 
let it flow clean of the trunk. Water can be obtained by 
digging a hole into a marshy spot and filling it with grass. 
Then take a piece of elder, pipe-stem, or any hollow tube 
and setting it perpendicularly upon the grass, pack the earth 
around it. Then apply suction with the lips and you will 
get water encugh to assuage thirst. Carry your matches 
in a vulcanized rubber box to prevent wetting; or a bottle 
will answer. There are a thousand little devices and re- 
sorts which one learns by experience, and which occur to 
him naturally when required, but are difficult to inventory 
for others’ use. For provisions, one must be governed by 
circumstances. Tex, flour, ham, salt pork, soda powders, 
salt and pepperin quantities required, are all that is neces- 
sary. Never carry ground coffee; it is bulky and will im- 
pregnate the other stuff with its aroma, especially when 
wet. Borden’s condensed coffee takes no room and isa 
luxury indeed. Dessicated food of all kinds is compact, 
an | goes a great ways. Pickles and onions are a desirable 
addendum and an excellent relish. We are writing for 
those who propose ‘‘roughing it” in earnest. Of course, 
for ordinary camping out one may add as many luxuries as 
he likes, and the greatest of these is a camp kit of tin ware, 
such as is sold by Lalance & Grosjean, of Beekman street, 
New York. This contains knives, forks, spoons, cups, 
plates, broiler, frying-pan, teapot, pepper and salt box, 
syrup and tea caddies, suificient for five or six persons, all 
fitting nicely together in a large water-pail, the whole cost- 
ing about $12 and weighing nine pounds. The old army 
knife-fork-and-spoon combined is very convenient to carry, 
Always take blankets and warm clothing when it is pos- 
sible, and a change of under and outer clothing. One’s 
cast-off suits are the best, as they can be thrown away in 
the end of the journey, leaving the party less weight to 
carry home with them. 

_ Of miscellaneous articles for a party who intend to re- 
main much in camp, we take the following list from Hal- 
lock s ‘‘Fishing Tourist,” which seemsito be nearly com- 
plete: 
Rods, reels, lines, flies, bait-hooks, trolling tackle, gaffs, 
landing net, bait-box, fioat. 
Woollen and rubber overcoats, old shoes,rubber leggings, 
extra boots, slippers, or moccasins. 
Hatchet, knife, pistol and cartridges, screw-driver, awl, 
pliers, gimlet, whetstone, twine, wire, rope, leather straps, 
tacks, needles, pins, thread, wax, scissors, paper, pencil, 
rubber. 
‘Compass, matches, fuse, candles, spring balance, cork- 
screw, pocket pistol, field-glass. 
Soap, towels, comb, sponge, looking-glass, goggles, linen 
and flannel rags and raw cotton, to be used for cuts, 
wounds, cleaning guns, mending, &c. 
Pipes, tobacco, maps, diarrhaa mixture, cathartic pills, 
salve, court-plaster, ammonia, sweet oil, and a mixture of 
tar and oil as a preventive against flies and other insects. 
One India-rubber bag to hold the ‘‘kit” is a desirable ad- 



FOREST AND STREAM. 
dition to an outfit, as it makes a portable package and 
keeps its contents always dry. 
Having now prepared the amateur woodsman for an ex- 
pedition to the woods, we shall in our next advise him how 
to organize his company, select his camp sites, and make 
his camp, with a view to greatest comfort and enjoyment, 
supplementing the same with papers upon general wood- 
craft’ and the method of learning and understanding the 
same. 

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THE GAME OF COLORADO. 
Sa ge 
ROBABLY there is no section of the world where the 
more desirable and edible species of wild game exist 
in such variety as in Colorado. This wonderful country 
has been known for three-quarters of a century to the old 
trappers and “‘mountain men” oi the Far West, but it is 
only recently that the spread of settlements and the means 
of railway communication have brought it to the knowl- 
edge and reach of the mere sportsman. Seventeen years 
ago we ofthe Forrest aND STREAM accompanied old Bill 
Bend and Chas. Fitzpatrick, then the Indian Agent fcr the 
Comanches and Kigwas, to the South Park, Rocky Moun- 
tains, wa the ‘‘Arkansaw trail,” and we can therefore bear 
testimony, in some limited degree, to the extrao.dinary 
game resources of the territory as it then was, and compare 
them with the conditions of to-day. It is to one of these 
old mountain men of ancient renown that we wrote recent- 
ly for a brief statement in detail of the game resources of 
Colorado, and through him we are enabled to present the 
very complete and reliable summary which we print in an- 
other part of this paper, the value of which will be best ap- 
preciated by those who are most competent to enjoy the 
benefits that may be derived from the information. 
em 
MONEY PRIZES AT CREElMOOR. 
Sole FLED 
E have received several letters endorsing our views 
as to the policy of offering money prizes for competi- 
tion at Creedmoor, and have selected these that follow for 
publication.—[Ep. F. ann §8.] 
Eprrork ForEst AND STREAM :— 
Your remarks in regard to the prizes at Creedmoor are 
quite opportune. Let us endeavor in every way to stimu- 
late a liking for manly sports, and deprive such amusements 
of the debasing idea ‘‘that there is money in them.” The 
exceedingly delicate line which divides the ‘t amateur” 
from the ‘‘professional”” becomes so fine in fact as to be 
quite undistinguishable when money is the reward of the 
victor. Let us have then cups, medals, rifles, badges, any- 
thing and everything as prizes at Creedmoor, but no money. 
This is not only my idea but that of many who have shot at 
NEw Yor«, October 12th. ‘* CREEDMOOR.” 

EDITOR or ForEST AND STREAM :— 
Tam glad to have seen in your columns an editorial about 
offering money as a prize at Creedmoor, and that you are 
adverse to it. We could have expected nothing else from 
your excellent paper, which is trying its best not only to 
cultivate all out of door amusements, but to deprive them 
of their gambling proclivities. I am very certain that at 
least the American portion of the members of the Rifle As- 
sociation have set their faces against these money prizes, 
and think the officers of the Association are of the same 
opinion. I for one would like to hear their ideas on the 
subject. Shooting both as a soldier and sportsman, I think 
It have had a fair opportunity of knowing the sentiment of 
my friends in regard to this important question, and think 
they are all of the idea that the less money enters into this 
question of prizes at Creedmoor the better for the associa- 
tion. SEARGENT. 
New York, October 18th. 
[The remarks of our correspondent ‘‘ Sergeant” would 
seem to intimate when he writes ‘‘the American portion 
of the Association,” &c., that the other members of the as- 
sociation not Americans are desirous of having money 
prizes; we are pleased to assure him of the contrary from 
the receipt of the following. |—Ep. 

Epiror Forest AND STREAM:— 
Dear Sir: Ihave shot at Wimbledon, and was perhaps 
among the first who used that range. I most freely endorse 
your ideas of removing all money from the rifle shooting 
at Creedmoor. In England I know vigorous efforts have 
been made to pluck out the gambling spirit which unfor- 
tunately has seized on so many people there, and that more 
than once the prize committees of Wimbledon have re- 
garded money prizes as an evil, and have made efforts to 
substitute cnps, medals; &c., for them. As we have but 
just started the matter in the United States let us begin right 
and havea clear record. Knowing the trouble money 
prizes have caused in England, I trust we will not fall into 
the same mistake here. Ex- WIMBLEDON, 
i 
Earty Matins.—One of the most curious examples of 
the apparently trifling pursuits of scientific men was exhi- 
bited a few years ago by one of the most esteemed members 
of the Academy of Science of Paris, M. Dureau de la 
Malle. He was anxious to ascertain at what hour different 
birds began their morning song. He, therefore, from the 
first of May to the sixth of July, made observations which 
he regularly published. It appears that for thirty years 
this vigilant naturalist went to bed at seven o’clock in the 
evening and rose at midnight, during the spring and sum- 
mer, and that this eccentric habit was for scientific pur- 
poses. It seems that the concert is opened about one 
o’clock by the chaffinch, and that the sparrow is the laziest 
bird, not leaving his rest until five o’clock; in the interme- 
diate hours, at marked intervals, which M. de Malle has 
carefully noted down, other birds commence their natural 
melodies. He has shown that on more than one occasion 
the different birds have mistaken artificial light for the 
dawning of day, and that a solar lamp has often awakened 
the little choristers. 
SPECIMENS OF FISH WANTED. 
ei oS be 
Pres Agassiz desires information in regard to 
the following species of fish, and would like specimens 
sent to him, to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at 
Cambridge. Questions of locality having much to do with 
the interest attached to these subjects, where specimens are 
caught should always be distinctly stated. The range of fish 
can only be satisfactorily understood in this way. It seems 
highly probable that a number of fishes, formerly living in 
more southern waters, are working their way northward. 
The list of fishes most wanted differing very much as to 
their common names, Mr. Agassiz uses the scientific nomen- 
clature. From the New York Times we copy the names 
of the fish required by Agassiz: 
Diodon Geometricus.—De Kay says that this is a Southern fish, not yet 
observed north of New York. It is quite common on the reefs of Florida, 
but this year I have obtained specimens at Penikese Island, and even at 
Nahant, north of Cape Cod! 
Histicophorus Americanus.—Cuvier, who first described this species, 
refers it to the topical latitudes of the Atlantic. Itis common about 
Cuba. This year I obtained several specimens at Penikese Island. I sus- 
pect this species to be the same as the H. Belone. 
Sphyroena Vulgaris,—Not mentioned by De Kay, unless his sphy- 
roena borealis be the same species. 
Tetraodon Levigatus.—Only seen once by De Kay, who does not say 
from what region he obtained it. This fish is common in the Southern 
Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico; also frequently found in South Caro- 
lina. 
Monocanthas Cuspicauda.--Not mentioned by De Kay. 
Palinurus Perciformis.—De Kay says it is an occasional visitor on our 
coast. 
Micropogon Undulatus.—De Kay says that it isfound in New Orleans 
nd Charleston, I have myself seen specimens from the Gulf of Mexico, 
nd from South Carolina. 
Hlops Saurus.—Common in the South Atlantic, and¥not uncommon at 
Charleston, 8S. C. De Kay saw it once in New York. 
Argentina Glossodonta.~-De Kay, under the name Butirinus Vulpes, 
says this fish does not occur within the limits of New York. You sent 
ne some very fine ones, and I know that Prof. Baira obtained some in 
the Sound, 
dlews from Abroad. 
‘ae prime necessity of the sportsman, when there are 
birds is, of course, to have a gun and Cogs, and in 
the same way, ‘‘ when foxes are to be found, what would 
bethe use of them?” asks the Englishman, ‘‘if hunting 
horses are wanting ?” Now, the Horse Committee, com- 
monly known as ‘‘Lord Roseherz’s Committee,” having set 
their wise heads together (through act of Parliament) to in- 
quire into the number of horses in Great Britain, Scotland 
Ireland and Wales, with the idea of discovering 
whether horses were becoming scarce or not, came, it 
seems, to the conclusion “that the alleged scarcity of 
horses was very much overrated, and that though horses in 
England had risen in price there was no real dearth of 
horses.” 
This assertion, it seems, is flatly contradicted. Irate 
correspondents to leading English journals declare that good 
hunters are almost impossible to find, or when found, such 
prices are asked for them as to render their acquisition only 
within the reach of an archimillionaire. Ireland, it is as 
serted, has been drained of her hunters, ‘‘Yorkshire has 
been sucked dry,” and foreigners have bought up all the 
good brood mares in such numbers that the equine fountain 
head has been sapped. Fox hunting in England has al- 
ways been a most expensive sport, and many votaries of 
this most glorious amusement, with increasing cost of 
“horses and keep of hounds, have been forced to abandon it. 
Somewhat exclusive in character this augmentation in the 
cost of hunters may make fox hunting even more prescribed. 
Hssentially a national amusement and the basis of real Eng- 
lish sport, we should be loath to hear of its curtailment. 
Hnglishmen are a little apt to grumble at times, and to cast 
fearful horoscopes of the future, so we are rather inclined 
to think that the complaints of want of horses is somewhat 
exaggerated. It would be with no little feeling of sadness 
that we would take up an English paper in this year, or in 
ten years to come, if the names of the Quorn, or the Pytch- 
log, or Melton Mowbray hunts were not chronicled. We 
fancy that coals and hunters will disappear both together 
from England some of these days, but not in the next twen- 
ty-five thousand years or so. To remedy this want of good 
hunting horses quite an excellent suggestion is made, and 
that is that every hunt should provide farmers in the neigh- 
borhood with good stock for the gratuitous use of such 
tenant-farmers as would breed hunting animals, 
—We can record no improvement in the grouse. To 
have to pay some $4,500 for the rental of a Scotch moor— 
one of the best in Scotland, and to kill only fifty brace of 
grouse on it—is paying rather a high price for birds. Even 
enthusiastic sportsmen going to Norway have met with no 
better sport. Thesame epidemic seems to have seized on 
the grouse there. Last year Norway afforded admirable 
sport, and immense bags were made. Perhaps like Eng- 
land, in Norway the birds were overshot. In Norway, 
however, the sportsmen may get an elk, and bear are by no 
means uncommon. If the feathered game are wanting in 
England and Scotland, stags are not in the same category. 
In Inverness Mr. Winans had killed, up to the close of last 
month, 104 stags. This looks a trifle like slaughter. 
—The English cricket season is now fast drawing to a 
close, and the only match worthy of record—one between 
Mr. Graces’ eleven anda Kent eleyen—strange io say, the 
two great champions were laid low with feeble scores. 
There was also one between amateur cricketers and an 
eleven of cricket eriticasters (to adopt Charles Reade’s word) 
which resulted in the most ignominious defeat of the crit- 
ics, only confirming the old idea that a man can write most 



