Sporting Notes in the Far East. 59 



CHAPTER VIII. 



VARIETIES. 

 " TIGERS." 



Tigers there are in abundance, both in Russian Tartar)- and the 

 northern portions of Corea ; but I regret to say, that owing to no 

 sportsmen in the fleet having had any opportunities of getting away 

 after them during the period I was out in the East, I am totally 

 unable to give any information as to their pursuit. 



They must be very numerous, as even on the shores of unfre- 

 quented bays and harbours in Russian Tartary, I myself have seen 

 most unmistakable signs of their close proximity, in the shape of 

 deer bones, dung, and the marks of their " pugs," where they have 

 come down to the streams to drink ; and by drawing conclusion from 

 the immense size of some of the skins brought in by the natives, 

 there must be some magnificent animals only waiting for someone 

 to come and shoot them. One skin which I measured in the queer 

 kind of market place of a town called Fusan, in Corea, being no 

 less than n feet 4^ inches in length, taken from the nose to the 

 tip of the tail 



