Page:The History of the Island of Dominica.djvu/46

 Dominica is viited in the hurricane months by wild ducks, curlews, plovers, and nipes; but not in uch numbers at a time, as they are uually een in ome Wet India ilands, owing to there being very few pots of tagnated water in this iland, and to the great quantity of land in it till covered with woods.

Shortly after the reduction of this iland by the French lat war, the Marquis Duchilleau, then Governor, prohibited the killing of game during the breeding eaon. This prohibition has ince been made into a law, by the Englih Legilature of Dominica, as a circumtance highly neceary; not only to prevent the runaway negroes from trafficking with that commodity for arms and amniunition, but alo to preerve the game, which would probably have become extinct, if an unlimitted power of detroying them had not been retrained.