Sporting Notes in the Fat East. 1 3 



CHAPTER II. 



is a dreadful place for ruining shooting clothes, es- 

 pecially the lower garments ; they all wear out at the knees in 

 no time ; the cause being the continual friction in walking through 

 the wet thick undergrowth ; therefore, lucky is the man who knows 

 some kind friend in Formosa, who will procure for him some of 

 that splendid texture called " Savage Cloth." 



It is manufactured by the aborigines of the island out of the 

 fibre of the pine-apple leaf, it is very light, besides having the 

 advantage of being quite untearable. It has however the serious 

 drawback of being rather light in colour ; and dyeing, (which can 

 easily be done at Hong Kong) is necessary. 



Anyhow whatever material your clothes are made of, there is 

 nothing like having double thickness at the knees, and then both 

 thicknesses covered over on the outside with thin canvas or loose 

 chamois leather. 



The ordinary shooting caps, with flaps tied over the head, are a 

 mistake ; as the cap is being constantly left behind through the 

 strings of these flaps catching in the overhanging brushwood. 



