Hunting in Many Lands 



they supply with game — deer, boars, antelope, 

 hares, pheasants and partridges — the Peking 

 market, bringing them there frozen from re- 

 mote corners of their country. 



Among the big game in the northern part 

 of the Chinese Empire the first place properly 

 belongs to tigers and leopards. In Korea 

 tigers are quite common, and a special corps 

 of tiger hunters was kept up until recently by 

 the Government. The usual method of kill- 

 ing tigers is to make a pitfall in a narrow 

 path along which one has been found to trav- 

 el, and on either side of it a strong fence is 

 erected. When the tiger has fallen into the 

 pit, he is shot to death or speared. The skin 

 belongs to the king, and the hunters are re- 

 warded by him for each beast killed. The 

 skins are used to cover the seats of high dig- 

 nitaries, to whom they are given by the king, 

 as are also the skins of leopards ; and tigers' 

 whiskers go to ornament the hats of certain 

 petty officials. 



Leopards are so numerous in Korea that I 

 have known of two being killed within a few 

 weeks inside of the walls of Seoul. 



Tigers are also found in Manchuria, and, as 

 before mentioned, in parts of northern and 



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