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Butterfly Hunting In Dalmatia Once I went "butterfly hunting" in Dalmatia. Cattaro. Batteries have since been built upon these mountain tops, and it was my business to investigate their positions, strength, and armaments. I went armed with most effective weapons for the purpose, which have served me well in many a similar campaign. I took a sketchbook, in which Were numerous pictures-some finished, others only partly done-of butterflies of every degree and rank, from a "Red Admiral" to a "Painted Lady." Carrying this book and a color-box, and a butterfly net in my hand, I was above all suspicion to anyone who met me on the lonely mountain side, even in the neighborhood of the forts. I was hunting butterflies, and it was always a good introduction with which to go to anyone who was watching me with suspicion. Quite frankly, with my sketch-book in hand, I would ask innocently whether he had seen such-and-such a butterfly in the neighborhood, as I was anxious to catch one. Ninety-nine out of a hundred did not know one butterfly from another-any more than I do-so one was on fairly safe ground in that way, and they thoroughly sympathized with the mad Englishman who was hunting these insects. They did not look sufficiently closely into the sketches of butterflies to notice that the delicately drawn veins of the wings were exact representations, in plan, of their own fort, and that the spots on the wings denoted the number and position of guns and their different calibres. This sketch of a butterfly contains the outline of a fortress, and -marks both the position and power of the guns. The marks on the wings between the lines mean nothing, but those on the lines show the nature and size of the guns, according to the keys below. The position of each gun is at the place inside the outline of the fort on the butterfiy where the line marked will; the spot ends. The head of the butterfly Points towards the north. The marks of the wings reveal the shape of the fortress shown here and the size of the guns
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