Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet 



A mile or so south of Peking is another 

 famous hunting park, called the Nan-hai-tzu, 

 in which is found that remarkable deer, not 

 known to exist in a wild state in any other 

 spot, called Cervus davidi. Of late years a 

 number of these deer have been raised in the 

 imperial park of Uwino at Tokio, and also in 

 the Zoological Garden of Berlin, where a pair 

 were sent by the German Minister to China, 

 Mr. Von Brandt. This deer is known to the 

 Chinese as the ssu-pu-hsiang-tzu, "the four 

 dissimilarities," because, while its body shows 

 points of resemblance to those of the deer, 

 horse, cow and ass, it belongs to neither of 

 those four species — so say the Chinese. 



The Chinese proper show but rarely any 

 great love for sport. They are fond of fishing, 

 and I have seen some very good shots among 

 them, especially at snipe shooting, when, with 

 their match-locks fired from the hip, they will 

 frequently do snap shooting of which any of 

 our crack shots might be proud. But the 

 Chinese are essentially pot hunters, and have 

 no sportsmanlike instincts as have the Man- 

 chus and Mongols, with whom sport is one of 

 the pleasures of life, though it is also a source 

 of profit to many Mongol tribes. In winter 



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