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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

"A Chinose coolie who holes made by their bills in the bats.

como RIFLE AND GUN.

...with Usax soft clay-used to be hailed by us had with something of the joy that boaror, had a nasty experience. Some Malayan Memories. Robinson Crusoe ovinced when of their viciousnoss. When shot, ho discovered Man Friday's foot- the flying fox, if not killed, gives a shrill scream and then hurtles! print.

to the ground in a most erratic fashion, so that it is difficult to ilge inthe semi-darkness where is going to fall. One landed on bearer, and bit him severely the neck.

(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH."] The other day I received a letter from a man dwelling on the borders of the wilds in the Malay Peninsula which contained bat, one important item of news

the snipe are already here." This immediately conjured up memories, regretful ones for the nonce, of the days he and I used to spend together, in the padi swamps and elsewhere, in that -land of wide spaces and plentiful gitme. This time last year we and others were in wesive pre paration for our annual outing against these most difficult of feathered marks, culminating, one early Qehber day, in the very good "bag of thirty-seven couple. But then, we knew spot which had not been disenver od, get, by the polyglot sport- men" who went about in bands and soon succeeded in scaring the game from a distrire if they did nothing more...

It is of our feathered quarry that I am moved first to jot down my reminiscences. Oh those glorious early mornings, when the stars still shone pale in

duce.

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Tigers, Deer, and Pigs.

Pigeon-Shooting. Green pigeon (the punai" of the Malays) and the larger wood pigeon (or "pergam") gave line sport, and were excellent for the table. Even where the march of civilisation has eliminated snipe teal. and plover, the pigeon The "big game" of our outing" abounds. In the season, provided were confined principally, to wild the trees on the berries of which pig and dear. Only on two o he feeds are there, you will find casions was fortunate enough him on the outskirts of busy to participate in figer hunts townships. The best outing 1 evermitting an involuntary instanse hid when green pigeon shooting that 1 shali mention later. was in a mangrove swamp..

Mild pig abound in almost all sat in a boat mooted in a creek, parts of the Malay Peninsula, and and shot the birds as they flew hesides the excellem flesh they. overhead to the feeding "grounds" provide for the table, the boars. in the nearby jungle, There was often give fine trophies in the In one place some additional excitement when form of big tasks a portion of our "bag" floating Jowot of, we used to sit in wait some listance away was pulled for them on the edge of a under by a young emcodile before pineapple plantation. The pir we could retrieve it."

with

water,

And

Wi

were

would stend into the pen just Naturally, these trips had their aftor sunset and the light was incidents; some gay, some grave sufficient for a good shot. Anon. I recollect well an occasion when we would vary the procedure, Į an early-morning uting nearly and wait for them just before ended in tragedy. Odds, a lánky dawn. It was a test of endtrance! individual, was out with me in a to have even a mild smack at War! of tormenting big red-covered marsh. full of the deep waterholes. I could just mosquitoes meant searing the These wild pig mists see his khaki sun-helmet mo quarry away. by the Kry lay thick over the saying about a hundred yards usually let. one know when they land, and sleepy Chinese, and away, when he suddenly and in were startled, by emitting a loud Malay squatters" drove their explicably disappeared. Instind snort half of rage and half of fear, Otherwise, we used" fa. "drive" lumbering, bollockearts towards lively knew what had happen town loaded with country pred he had fallen into a hidden the pig in broad daylight. For

1. shall commence bywater-hole. With a feeling of this we employed beaters inventing fictitious names for sickening apprehension I made usually Tamils (South Indian

R i might write my way carefully to the spot,immigrants) and su pack of those of whor I lived with hefty Felloe at one and was able to help him ut pariah dogs. These dogs were period, a man who never needed Most fortunately, his gun had splendid animals for the purpose. an alam elnek and taught me enaght across the top of the hole. They were mostly piebald. "for how to wake at dawn as a habit and he had not let go his grip of occasionallya new recruit to the instoad of a task. We boiled our

it. These holes are dug by sport (and once or twice even an carly morning tea ourselves, so Chinese vegetable-growers 10 "old hand") would mistake a as not to trouble the long-suffer- I serve as wells for supply in the uniformly brown or black dog for ing lady of the hotee. One nira- dry season. In the rainy months, a deer ar pig. When cornered,

with which

"the like hours correspond ing wi left the Primüs stove

exceedingly

Odds once- alone for a moment, and the winted season, when migrant dangerous brutes.

Et very narrow escape. kettle boiled all over the table-feathered game "cone down to had cloth. We knew what would be the topics," "thesa holes, become when he only avoided being said when we returned; and as filled

are ripped by inking a flying leap Fellow, in diving for the overilow-veritable death-traps: not only into the air as a wounded pig ing kettle, succeeded in bringing are they very deep, but narrow, charged him. fis right eye hard up against the that even a good swimmer The deer, a variety of sambhur, Whatmt it was not altogether a cannot use his limbs if he fallsin were "beaten for similarly. successful outing..

Encounters With Snakes. and they sometimes fell to the Not being blessed with much

Snakes were very frequently rifles when we were out for pig. A good day's money, I had unly two sporting arms for small game a twenty, met with On one occasion and ein recNU. bore double-barrulled shotgun, trod on a black Malayan cobra, bag meant the, free distribution choke and modilled choke, for thy the greatest of good juss pus-of the meat a portion to our which I preferred Nobel's ballisting my foot on its neck. so that beaters and hearers, whatever we tite cartridges, loaded with No, though it coiled in body round my required for ourselves, and the 6; and for bigger quarry a Mauser, and lashed alat in its fury, balance to various friends. The rifle that had seen service on the it couldnt strike. Pelloe has a telephone "of an acquaintance Boer side in the South African scar on his knee where a venom-would ring, and he was some- war and had passed through sevs, oùs make onee bit him, in the times given thirty seconds tu eral hands since parted with Sumatran Jungle. With utmost decide whether he would have those with something of a pang presence of mind he immediately venison or wild pork, leg or rib when my footsteps were turned reopened up' the wound with his chops,, I once, after dusk, fuck a less-favoured latinades. My chief huming knife, ripped open a leg of venison, wrapped up in conipanionrm these shootingcartridge, and poured a heap of paper, to a well-known resident trips carried a Winchester repeat gunpowder on the sput, to which of Singapore, a Scottish surgeon, ing "brush "gun. Twelve bore, the he set a match. This effective and handed it at the door to a saved him the Chinese "boy" who, directly my first of its kind even imported interuterisation Malaya. This could drop big certain ill-effects of the vem, back was turned, took a peop, and dropped the parcel with a lend game up to two hundred yard if it did not even save his life.

I once went out on a moonlight cry of horror. He had cought with a segmented ball.

Some of the best sport we ever night shooting "fying-foxes," the sight of the blood-smeared limb, had was in going after players big fruit-outing" hals that de so and evidently thought it had Occasionally

three much damage to plantatings, We something to do with his master's it meant o'clock in the morning rising, and oak up up station near a clump practice!

Only we went on a launchi we would "walk them up" by of horse-mangoe trees, and drop-| moonlight. It necessitated very ped the hats as they flew thirty and boat trip up-river after a We suontiger, an alleged man-eater, which to farty feet overhead.

materialise hur accurate,niarksmanship, and was splendid practice with the fowling-ting of the slaughter, which. I did not piece. When all else failed, if however, is another great "sport" enjoyed the picnic and for me, shooting for the pot, we used to with the Asiatic shotgun expert, the interesting trudge through

of the the jungle. Curry tum in the common rail, which who makes. a

The sight af JL fine gave us mild sport. This poor animal after certain glands have of this

after another bird is being exterminated in been removed. Tönce tasted some by

shit it "There. were some district dy the Malayan of this dish, and found it not tigress,

I went out had gilded youth whose ain, literally unlike carried duck.

"with Odds Hut night and three of us stationed at imtervals falls short of more difficult quarry.

against are of about fifty yards, with Malays further back and When the season was early the be warned ne first signs of snipe the tiny, deep lessly handling, the wounded asserves

on the wings. Presently ride?! moniam could be heard in the distance the beaters and dögs were approaching. Suddenly, the man on my left (who was the middle of the three) saw a huge,! striped head inspecting him from the edge of the clearing, not twenty feet away! The brute "yawned" at big, to use his own

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My second outing

was rewarded

ININ

An Unexpected Meeling.

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toes, without sight of a living animal of ravine some fifty feet below.", 1 a tour of [C= believe

still kicks any kind, we came across the wandered furth, on himself when he thinks of it. explantation a diger's tracks. A exploration late in the evening. The animal was dropped by the few minutes later we almost and was overtaken by pitch dark- third man is it loped past him a blundered on the animal. As welness, as it was a cloudy, night.. In Discovering minute later a lucky shot, taken were passing a clump of thick order to find my way back 1 had at random as he saw the form fern there was a loud "woof" to strike matches. moving through the tall "lallang" and snarl, and a huge shape that I had only a few sticks in crashed aside into the deeper un-the. box, I decided to conserve dergrowth. We lost no time in them, ny procedure being to puting a considerable distance grope forward for twenty yards I spent Easter one year with between ourselves and that tiger!ors between lights. When I The night before I left, we had only three or four sticks left shot a small mousedeer within I said to myself: want the bother of obtaining a fifty yards of the bungalow, which forward until I reach permit for just three or four days, as attracted by means of anbefore striking another match." so left my armoury behind. Macetylene motor-cycle lump. It stumbled along for a consider- chur had only a hammershotgun, is a method still employed by able distance before my with one hammer broken, so only one-deer-shooters, but in my stretched hand touched a tree- one barrel was of any use. decided to go pig shooting, using (Opinion a very unsportsmanlike trunk. I then struck a match- procedure. The dazzled animal and found I was leaning against buckshot cartridges. He took me makes

fair target for the hidden a tree growing right on the edge of the precipico, with not another to a place where wild pig usually marksman.

Before I conclude those remin- within thirty yards! My number gathered in large numbers to rip:

and open the fallen coconuts

Isconces, I shall recount a narrow evidently was not up yol. est the kernel, but we

saw "queak" 1 had once. We wore |

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1 went for a rest, and did not

We

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