ABSTRACT
IN Dalmatia I had heard glowing accounts of the sport in the Administered Provinces; in fact, this had been a very principal reason for going there. So it may be imagined that I lost no time in proceeding to take out my licence, and in ascertaining what sport was to be obtained in the vicinity. The licence system-or rather the system of taxation thereunder-in the Administered Provinces is peculiar. Apart from the permit to carry arms, which costs 18. 3d., the shooting-licence, which entitles the holder to shoot anywhere in Bosnia and the Herzegovina, except in the five sanctuaries, costs 88. 4d.; but it is doubled if the sportsman wishes to shoot with one dog, and trebled should he desire to use two; more than two are not allowed. This strikes me as, on the whole, the very worst plan possible for collecting revenue from sportsmen; for is it not equivalent to a premium in favour of the peasant shooter, who observes the haunt of beast or bird when he is at work, and knows exactly where to lay his hand on it afterwards?
