Sporting Notes in the Far East. 15 



The muslin behind the head must hang loosely down well below 

 the collar, and you must also have an enlargement let in, for each 

 ear ; as should any part of the net rest on the ear a " gaunt mus- 

 keteer " will find it out at once. 



For the hands shoot in thin kid gloves, and to protect the 

 wrists and exposed part of the face, as much carbolic oil 'as you 

 can put on ; the smell of the oil is not like that of lavender ; but 

 there is no loving wife to embrace on your return. 



Perhaps readers will think all these precautions absurd. But 

 those who have " gone through the mill " ; with these little beggars 

 on a good " mosquito day " ; will know to the contrary. For 

 instance a man wearing knickerbockers without leggings, will very 

 soon feel their bayonets, through the thickest of worsted stockings. 



One reads of terrible stories told about the wretched runaways 

 from the mines of Siberia ; caused by the self same mosquitoes ; 

 and a runaway after spending some weeks in the enormous forests 

 is generally horrible to see. His face is but one swollen mass ; his 

 eyes inflamed and hardly to be seen beneath the burning and 

 tortured eye lids ; his swollen mouth and nostrils covered with sores. 

 And it is therefore not to be wondered at that both men and cattle 

 go mad from this dreadful plague. 



