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Title: Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ... together with the complete history of China down to the present time ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r snare them or shootthem sitting; and the spectacle of a rocket-ing mallard brought down from a greatheight in the air is greeted by them withfrantic shouts of admiration and delight.Turkey bustards, cranes, herons, pink andwhite ibis are also encountered, and there is alarge eagle, whose tail-feathers are muchprized by the Chinese for fans. But the richness of the Corean covert liesrather in fur and skin than in feather. Hares,foxes, badgers, wild cat, wild boar, sables,ermin, and otter in the far north, and differentkinds of deer (which are hunted for themedicinal properties supposed in China tobelong to the horns of the young buck) areto be found in the scrub on the mountains.Leopards are quite common, and in thewinter months sometimes venture even insidethe walls of Soul. But the tiger is the king of Corean quar-ries. He is of great size; and I saw, whilein Corea, some splendid skins. His haunt isthe wooded mountain-slopes near the eastcoast, and the entire belt of country north-
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295 296 COREA AND THE WAR. wards as far as the forests on the Yalu,where man-eaters are not uncommon. Inwinter-time tigers have more than once comedown into the settlement at Gensan andcarried off a victim; I even heard there of aEuropean who, going out to dine, met a tigerwalking down the middle of the road; andwhen I was at Chang An Sa (the Hall ofEternal Peace), the principal of the KeumKang San monasteries, one was said topatrol the quadrangle every night, and wecame across their spoor and droppings. Royal Tiger-Hunters. The King maintains a body of royal tiger-hunters, who capture them by means of pitsand traps, the commonest of these being asort of big wooden cage constructed oftimbers and stones, rather like a giganticmouse-trap. A pig is tied up inside, and theentrance of the tiger releases the door andconfines the beast, who is then despatchedwith spears. The natives, however, regardthe animal with an overpowering apprehen-sion, and there is an old Chinese saying that the Cor

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