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them Lang Chai-lang and Chai-kow. In 

 Kwei-chow and Yunnan two kinds have 

 been seen, but they are not as large as those 

 in Shansi. They have the reputation of 

 being quite bold in their depradations and 

 will venture into a farmyard or a village 

 in broad daylight to seize their prey. I am 

 informed by one who has travelled much in 

 China that during a forenoon, as he was 

 travelling in upper Kwei-chow, he came to 

 a market-place where were assembled sever- 

 al hundred natives ; not far off, toiling in a 

 field, he saw a woman who suddenly began 

 to cry out and then ran towards him calling 

 loudly Chai-kow, and at the same time a 

 large brown animal passed near him and 

 ran up the mountainside ; it was a wolf. 

 Afterwards it appeared that the woman had 

 laid her baby near the roadside while she 

 toiled in her field and doubtless this brute 

 was watching for an opportunity to carry 

 off the child. General Mesney related to 

 me this incident : that on one occasion he 

 was taking a nap on his camp bed inside of 

 his tent when something awoke him and 

 his eyes met a pair of fierce eyes looking at 

 him ; the general drew his revolver from 

 under his pillow and fired at the invader 



