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                                            cidia multiply enormously in
such de- 
                                            caying organic matter, and it
may be that 
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shores of 
 Famous Equipment at Reasonable Prices Lake Newell became infected with these

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may be 
     Man Tent illustrated, in Aberlite fine due to the direct action of toxic
matter 
weave fabric with our exclusive green Cop- in the decomposed vegetation."

                                               All are agreed, however, that
the loss 
tier waterprioofiiig, is stormproof, bugproof, of birds occurs wxxhen unfavorable
teed- 
snakeproof,  and   wevighls  only  5  lbs.  Size 
pitcied, 4-'P front. 3' rear, x 6V' x 41/''  in- conditions exist, such as
strong alka- 
rolled up otily 14"   4'". Big eiiought f-  line or badly polluted
waters, and that 
two.l ried -1 8only                         (lea  duck  are" not freqentl
  foudro 
two. Price S18.00.                          (lead ducks are not frequently
found onl 
                                            marshes or lakes supplied with
plenty of 
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  liest Sprin'g and Sumninier robe by far for the  That there is, even during
the most 
ioney--oily $24.00. Light, tight-"oveii, tough favorable seasons, a
great loss of inigra- 
cottoni fabric cover With Virgin  wool bat tiller and 
aminel's hair and tsool btanket lining. Flat desigi, tor ry waterfowl in
the West fromi Call- 
closing in form of baig \ith g-initine Iookies' ada to Texas is certain,
and each year 
fastener. Weight o0ly 8 lb,. Everything )01 niied, reports from new places
would indicate 
for ally mrip al)1here. ColOT0  lt i s  about  best s 
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less viru- 
                                            lent, is spreading. A careful
investigation 
           ABERCROMBIESv would doubtless reveal the fact that dis- 
                                            case is taking more birds than
all other 
                                            causes combined. If this be true,
the only 
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                                               Under conditions which have
obtained 
     oion tile duck marshes of Western Aimer- 
  Sica during the past twenty years, no 
                                            amount of legislation, however
restrictive, 
                             J4I ;   IW*9   caii arrest the rapid decrease
among wxa- 
 
 
cimwi. L I a iere been no sioouing o1 
ducks during these great outbreaks of 
disease, it is doubtful if conditions would 
be any better today. In fact, the pres- 
ence of a greater number of birds oii the 
marsh might have resulted in a more 
complete extermination. It is not pos- 
sible to increase any variety of game be- 
yond the limits of its range. 
  Since the last great outbreak of the 
(luck sickness the birds are again increas- 
inlg. This condition wvill doubtless con- 
timle until the few   remaining niarshes 
will again be tilled with birds. Then, if 
history repeats itself, we mnay again xwit- 
ness the great losses which have occurred 
at fairly regular intervals for' twelut' 
years. turely, a country so wealthy' and 
so progressive as America will tahe ac- 
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  DOWN AND BE        cart and trying to unlimber and shooi 
  COMFORTABLE       ~   ~"Don't fire i" veiled Defosse. "Thos

                    are our bullocks." 
Here's a chair of nat- WVe had circled back to camp befor 
uralhardwood-oilfin- I knew it, and the bullocks aud buffaloe 
ish-with seat and 
back of selected pat- v'ere tied tinder the Nlois' huts. A per 
terns of heavy striped sot need, a guardiaii and a perfect sells 
woven canvas. Knocks of direction for night-hunting. Defoss 
down and packs in 
6 x 6 x 26 carton. Use told iie of a hunter who shot at on, 
it in Camp, Cottage, "evye" and  killed  a  native  sittinj 
Boat or on Lawn or out in     the  (lark  smoking   a  cigar 
Porch.              and of another fusileer who shot into 
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to identify any particular part of the lake 
as being affected in this xwav, and it is 
believed that the origin of the malady 
must be sought in some other cause ... 
  "\Vhile our investigations were more 
or less spasmodic, we are of the opinion 
that the sickness uas due either to the 
alkaline water which was more conecti- 
trated than usual, or to the pollution of 
the water caused by the putrefaction of 
the vegetable food growing in the lake, 
or a combination of both circumstances. 
brought about by the abnormal evapora- 
tion caused bv the unusual and continued 
hot, dry weather that was experienced in 
the southwest part of the province last 
summner... 
  ".It has been stated that l~ake Newell 
contains all excessive atmount of algae 
x hich disintegrate and decompose (tiring 
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hicd and Strealn--April, 1929 
  a hole in the wall \\:is an eve. 
    A nlight-Iiutnter must use all his horse- 
  sense and caution. Most animals have two 
  eyes; and ini case all "e'e" keeps oii shiin- 
  ing when tile light is turned away, it 
  iso t all ey. I)efosse sa idl that huinan 
  eyes sw'ild not reflect a light, but In' 
  iiot so sure of that. I have seei several 
  people's c ees shine just like aii aninal's 
  ii a certain light. 
    Before this, I had always considered 
 headlight hunting absolutely beyond the 
 Pale. I thought that it could only be 
 done with a shotgun, that no marksman- 
 ship was required and that it was simply 
 murder in the first degree. I had brought 
 a headlight along because the guide had 
 especially writtei me that I would need 
 one ill going through the jungles before 
 dawn to get to a certain hunting ground 
 just at daybreak, or to be in position for 
 stalking a bait several kilometers from 
 camp as soon as it was light enough to 
 shoot. Puttering about in the dark in that 
 country' is likely to end in something 
 unpleasant for all concerned except the 
 tiger, and a headlight is the most con- 
 venient way to light up the trails aud 
 leave both armis free. I'd never go to a 
 country' of damigerous gauie again with- 
 out one. 
 
 B   UT what surprised me was the fact 
     that it is perfectly practicable to shoot 
 gaite with a rifle at night. It requires 
 extremely careful holding, for the tar- 
 get is never as large as the paln of your 
 hand and the sights are difficult to keep 
 aligned. But it is very humiane, because 
 the aiiinial is either killed instantly by 
 a brain shot or cleanly missed. Out of 
 the large number of deer that I shot with 
 the rifle at night, aiming between the 
 eyes, I -wounded and failed to get oiily 
 one, and I probably grazed the side of 
 his head. I am sorry that I eaniot say 
 the saiii. for all of my da(ylight shoot- 
 ing. 
   Regular open sights with a U-bar rear 
 and bright bead front are best for shoot- 
 ing at night. I managed to use the wide 
 open peep and a gold bead front; but 
 it was vcry difficult, and I finally filed 
 the top half off the aperture of a spare 
 peep sight. I did much the best shoot- 
 ing with the foldiug leaf rear sight in 
 iiy' .35, thouigh I habitually use the peep 
 sight on all iiiy rifles for day light shoot- 
 ing. 
   L-ong before dawn the miorning after 
 my first bull-cart humit, Defosse waked 
 the horse coolie to have our ponies sad- 
 died. Taking two Mois withi us to hold 
 the horses, we started out to stalk the 
 buffalo bait 'again. We got as far as we 
 could go unounted before it was light 
 enough to see the sights of our rifles. 
 Then we turned the horses over to the 
 t'vo Mois and walked carefully' forward 
 to within two hundred yards of the bait. 
   Suddenly it was broad day light, and 
 I started sneaking on aliie. My heart 
 was pounding like a laboring motor again. 
 As I neared the bait, though, I heard 
 no tearing and crunching noises--noth- 
 ing but the heavy drone of tlie millions 
 of flies. The tiger had not found it yet. 
   I was disappointed; but I)efosse said 
 it aliost alway's took three or four da's 
 for the bait to become badly enough de- 
 cayed to make its presence'knowu to a 
 wandering tiger; that lie had had tigers 
 killed on baits two weeks old. A very 
 large one had killed a stray buffalo near 
 this spot a short tiue before, lie said, 
 and this one would certainly come back 
 -when the bait got high. 
   After breakfast we started out on the lit- 
 tle ponies again to make a scouting trip 
 and incideutall'v try to shoot a chance 
 banteng for another bait. 'Ihottgh we saw