after 15 minutes returned to the inn for breakfast, Harry appeared shortly after with a mallard duck. We got the carts started by 6 o'clock & with them behind our horses rode down the shore of the lake to the south. The mud flats were dotted with hundreds of muddy sheld ducks, their beautiful red brown bodies & white glowing patches shining like patches of autumn leaves in the sun light. Half a dozen swans drifted a hundred yards from shore dropted about like some floating snow banks and ducks: & geese by thousands rose & settled on the lake. I saw a flock of ducks alight in the short grass on a marshy spot and when I got to stalk them 50 or 600 teal green teals, yellow rails and pintails went up in a brown cloud. For two hours, crawled behind the salt mountains we had good shooting and then rode up to join the carts, one pony's loaded with ducks & geese. The real swing about the north end of the lake and across the mountains farms we saw as whole army of geese coming in from their summer breeding grounds in Kingsha & far Siberia. Regiment after regiment swift past, circled away to the west and dropped into the water as two following the commands of a field marshal: The ball