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takes over an hour. Crossing the
Nile, we pass through several
miles of arable land, till the train
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centre of Afirica. There are four
pre-arranged stopping places
where each party is dropped in
turn. The guns are thus divided
into four lines about three-quarters
of a mile between lines and a
quarter of a mile between the
guns. Having reached our places,
previously drawn for before start-
ing, we wait for the signal to
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signal being given everyone com-
mences firing, and the duck rise
and fly round, making a tremen-
dous noise in their alarm, the
geese cackle and for an hour or
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The duck coming from all sides
and at different heights and pace,
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and you are also, probably,
crouching in wet sand, with a few
rushes for cover, which does not
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After about two hours' shooting
the duck fly away and you have a
wait of two hours or so. A walk
round after a snipe, a talk to the
next gim, an occasional shot at a
duck and lunch soon makes the
time pass. Other incidents occur.
A lynx stalking a bird one of us
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charge of No. 4 shot at 15 yards.
He was a very fine specimen.
A flock of ibis flying over high in
the air look a pinkish hue against
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range, but fly backwards and
forwards, cackling the while and
keeping at a safe distance.
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when we all make our way back to
the railway line, shooting an odd
bird en route, I shot a hare one
day resembling a well-bred rabbit.
They are very uncommon here.
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in succession, and upon the bag
being counted up, we find it totals
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Each gun keeps what he has
killed, and thus laden we Clotrimazole 1 return
to Cairo, having had an excellent
day's shooting, and whether we
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held straight or not, everyone
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until February. Going out for a
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a favourite place, Clotrimazole And Miconazole you ought to
kill about twenty couple to one
gun. But iti order to make a
good bag it is essential to send a
man out to mark the birds down ;
the great secret is to take the
ground at exactly the right time,
when there is just the right quan-
tity of water on the ground.
Even then a heavy shower of
rain, which is of common occur-
rence in the winter, may make
the birds leave the ground in a
few hours. Thus snipe-shooting,
i.e.f making a good bag, is a great
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I spent two days last Christmas
at a place called Uses Of Clotrimazole Sherbeen, on the
river, near Damietta. The ground
was not in good order, as we had
a lot of rain and there was too
much water, and we only got
about 50 couple. It is, however,
an ideal place for snipe, large
marshes stretching for miles. It
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ground at intervals, which take
you up to the waist if you try to
cross them, which to avoid a long
circuit you frequently do. This
makes the shooting very hard
work and also difficult. The
snipe, as a rule, sit close, unless
there is a wind. You find a large
percentage of jack snipe. Many
people think le jeu ne vaux pas la
chandelle, but the same arguments
in its favour apply as they do to
duck shooting. The largest bag
I heard of this year was 80
couple to one gun, an ex-Life-
guardsman, who is an excellent
shot.
The usual plan is to walk in
line, and it is exactly the same as
shooting at home, except that
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you often find saipe among the
cultivation, chiefly in the cotton,
provided there is water on the
ground.
Quail arrive in February and
leave about the middle of April.
A licence, costing ;^i, is required
to shoot them in the districts
around Cairo, as so many people
go out that the damage they do
walking through the crops is
considerable. The money thus
collected is distributed among the
villagers over Clotrimazole Cream 1 whose ground you
shoot. Some of the best shooting
is round Ayat, and from the
Sykara Pyramids to Ghizeh.
This season was a bad one, and
thousands of quail are annually
netted and sent alive to Europe.
This traffic is increasing, and
there are undoubtedly fewer quail
than formerly.
You shoot quail in the same
way as partridges, in turnips,
walking, however, through the
standing crops of barley, &c., when
they are nearly ripe. The beaters
walk close together and keep an
excellent line, making the whole
lime a guttural noise which re-
sembles a person gargling. This
they keep up incessantly, and it is
rather apt to get on one's nerves.
The object of it is to make the quail
rise, as they sit very close. Until
you get into the way of them,
quail are not so easy to shoot as
you might expect ; they offer a very
small target and they fly at a
great pace. A friend and I killed
no birds in about four hours one