130 SHOOTING IN CHINA 



terror to the flocks of the farmers, and a 

 reward is sometimes offered by the officials 

 for each leopard killed as an encourage- 

 ment to native shooters. The native 

 hunters eat the flesh of the leopard and 

 aside from its nourishment believe that it 

 makes them courageous. A foreign friend 

 informed me that he had the leg of a 

 leopared roasted, and after larding and 

 sticking it vi^itli garlic found it to be very 

 palatable, but that he preferred beefsteak. 

 If properly cured the skin can be made into 

 useful saddle bags and very pretty rugs for 

 the floor or for the bed. A nice rug of this 

 skin can be purchased for about four United 

 States dollars. 



Bear : This animal is called Hsiung in 

 Chinese, and like most of the big game is 

 found in greater numbers in western China 

 and some ])arts of Manchuria ; the moun- 

 tain regions of upper Kwei-chow is said to 

 be the favorite haunts of bears. This re- 

 gion is the home of the Miaotzu and Lolo 

 aboriginals and which, in Anglo-Saxon, 

 may be described as Miaoland and Lololand, 

 a region into which the Chinese have as yet 

 been unable to successfully penetrate, and 

 where these aborioinals live under wdiat 



