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PREFACE.

SOME time ago an editorial remark in the "Field" newspaper caught my eye, expressing regret that none of the many yachtsmen, who visited foreign countries, ever gave their experiences to the public. The thought occurred to me to try what I could do, and the few following pages are the result. I believe I break new, or very nearly new ground, in giving a description of a shooting cruise about the Albanian shores; for, although many have visited the same places, and no doubt made larger bags of pigs and woodcocks than I can record, they have kept their adventures to themselves, leaving that coast an unknown region to all, save those who, like themselves, have scaled its rugged hills and dragged through its thorny jungles. If

the few hints that I have given turn out hereafter of use to those who may be tempted to try their fortune in Albania, I shall consider my trouble amply repaid.

For the photograph from which the frontispiece is taken, I am indebted to an officer of the Corfu garrison; the other views are from photographs that I took myself.

BORRIS HOUSE, Co. CARLOW,

November, 1864.

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