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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 212 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=12mm, Gew.=318gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 212 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=12mm, Gew.=318gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Second Year's Work: Akasaka, Nagoya (1S75). We were busy enough all through January of 1S75 in making up our estimates, occasionally getting out for a tramp in the snow or a coasting voyage round the head of the lake after game. Our great shikari, Tom, shot what he called a mountain sheep, really a sheep- faced antelope, before Christmas; and they were shot by the native hunters in large numbers when the heavy snows drove them down into the valleys. Wild boar were also slain in plenty, and one enormous one, said to weight forty-five " kan " or " kwamme," equivalent to three hundred and seventy-five pounds, was hoisted in triumph up to the top of the look-out ladder in the next village. We couldn't do very much of this kind of fun, being far too heavy to get about on any kind of snow-shoe we could devise; for the snow remained soft and unfrozen all through the winter. Tom, however, shot a young pig with a revolver through a hole in the top of the box in which the luckless pig was confined, his capture having been previously effected by a combination of Japanese strategy with foreign dollars. James and Charlie had lots of fun, and got several good skins.Of my own achievements I will only say that I didn, t give myself any airs on account of them. Our poultry yard at Shiotsu was a great temptation to the foxes, who used to come and hang about round the corner, and even try and get under the house. But Tom was too many for them; whenever he smelt a fox he would arise and go to his muzzle-loader, and fire from the verandah at the thick of the scent, rarely failing to hit something. Our worst enemies, however, were the polecats, or " ten," as the Japanese call them. We lost more than twenty fowls one night, in spite of watching and dodging; but we got one of the m...<

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