HINTS ON PIG SHOOTING. 101 the only way is then to drive it across or along the side of the hill, posting the guns that would have been on the top had the wind allowed it, at the end of the beat instead, guarding the sides in the same way, only increasing the strength of your rearguard. The reason for paying so much attention to the wind is this: all wild animals are provided by a wise and merciful providence with peculiarly sensitive organs of both hearing and smelling; to these they mainly owe their safety, and to these senses they are indebted for timely warning to escape from enemies with whom they cannot cope in strength. By remaining perfectly motionless you may, even in an exposed open place, deceive their sight; but do what will you can never deceive either their ears or noses. you The wind, we all know, carries both scent and sound, and it will not take much argument to prove that when you are on the weather side of a covert the animals in it have a much better chance of being able both to hear and smell you than if you are to leeward. Attention should also be paid to your clothes; avoid all gaudy or striking colours, and choose a tint as nearly as possible the same as the ground or cover you are going to shoot; for instance, a sort of slate-coloured drab does splendidly for stony grey hills, with withered grass on them; coat, trousers and cap all of the same colour. In India in the hot weather when the grass on the hills burns to rather a reddish hue, we used to get our clothes died with a decoction of oak bark. I have often been at a loss to discover where my companion was when posted on a hill; I have stared, and stared in vain, till some slight movement on his part revealed his position. In Albania or any other country where the sun has not such grilling power, the reddish hue would not answer. The best sort of stuff for Albanian shooting, so far as my experience goes, is a sort of double twilled jean, it is the best for the thorns which is no mean recommendation, and its colour being admirable it requires no doctoring. Well, we got back on board about dark, rather pleased at the behaviour of our dogs-Vido, did credit to my education and gave us promise of good help; Carlo, Bob, and Trap, were as merry and busy as bees, but that miserable wretch, Dash, would do nothing but keep to heel, which bye the bye, he never would do when it was required of him at home, and he ended his day by coiling himself up under a bush where we left him, rather hoping that the wolves and jackalls would relieve us of his company-but no such luck. After din RETURN TO CORFU ROADS. 103 ner while R. and I were smoking on deck, we heard sundry splashes alongside, and looking over there was friend Dash swimming round the vessel, corroborating the old saying about the bad halfpenny that always comes back. We took him on board of course, and then and there held a court-martial upon him, the sentence passed being “that he should hang by the neck until he was dead," unless we could find some person in Corfu fool enough to take a present of him. Saturday 20th. Wet. Two Corfu yachts had come in during the night. Our dogs all looked as if they had had work enough-indeed to my grief Vido showed evident symptoms of distemper. All these reasons combined decided us on returning to Corfu : accordingly, after breakfast we got under weigh with a light S. E. wind, and were anchored in Corfu roads by 12 o'clock, where we remained idle so far as the shooting was concerned, until the 26th. One day we made an attempt to get over to Trescogli in company with the "L," but the weather came on too dirty, and we ended by anchoring for the night in Butrinto Bay, getting back to Corfu next morning. The R. Y. S. schooner "P," and the R. V. Y. C. schooner "C-" came in. Vido got worse, and I had to send him on shore to be taken care of, as much for the sake of his comfort and our own, as to remove the chance of infection, or contagion (I believe I should call it) as the infection was already there. We decided upon the necessity of investing in another dog, and despatched Julio on shore to hunt one up. The "P's" monkey was transferred to us. The above are the only circumstances I see recorded up to the 24th, when, of course, we dressed the ship for Christmas day, and thanks to the ladies' neat and nimble fingers, I flatter myself, the R. Y. S. "Eva" was not the worst dressed vessel in the Roads. It was rather good to see the rise in the value of evergreens. Holly there was none of-I believe a branch of it would have fetched any sum. But of ilex, orange branches, rhododendrons, myrtle, lauristina, &c. there were boats upon boats full, pulling from one vessel to another in search of the best market; the quantities the men of war used must have left some gardens bare enough. The 25th came in due course with its best clothes, roast beef, and plum-pudding. Although Christmas day in the Greek Church is kept according to what is termed the old style, that is, twelve days later than our almanack gives it. The Corfuites determined not to allow our great |