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found Aphodius, Geotrupes and Onthophagus, The novelty as well 

 as the interest of this narrative consists in the finding and recording 

 such familiar objects in so unfamiliar a countrj'. Here, however, in 

 company with the other Coprophagi, was a species of Sisyphus, and 

 this claims closer attention, and, with the ardour of a Power, our 

 entomological traveller proceeded to gather the Sisyphi into his 

 collecting-bottle: imagine him on his knees with digger in hand, 

 gazing with real enjoyment on every beetle that has upturned. But 



" What is that dark body moving steadily and slowly across the 

 plain ? It is a herd of cattle commanded by a patriarch bull, with a 

 great black head, reddish eyes, short horns, and a dewlap that nearly 

 touches the ground. We are serenely engaged in disentombing 

 Sisyphus, and, just looking up, we continue our occupation. The 

 moving mass of cows and calves, led on by the patriarch, steadily 

 advances. There are many stoppages, much pawing of the ground, 

 and some low bellowings, but — onward it comes. Prudence suggests 

 a retreat ; courage and a desire for more specimens of Sisyphus, urge 

 our remaining. So, putting on an indifferent air, we go on turning 

 over the sandy deposits. This seems to have some effect on the 

 bovine party. The patriarch bull, his admiring cows and offspring, 

 the playful calves, make a dead halt and stand staring. Thus we con- 

 tinue while a shard remains unexamined, when we rise, and, resuming 

 our stick, stroll with a would-be careless air towards the beach. The 

 patriarch bull with the great curly head and dewlap, and all his wives 

 and concubines, follow us down to the water, where, luckily a boat 

 being handy, we leave them." — P. 179. 



As our doctor passes from place to place, and touches on each 

 with a light and cheerful pen, just giving an understanding glance and 

 nothing more at what he sees, there is some difficulty in accompanying 

 him, and one feels sadly the want of a good map showing his course. 

 Probably he concludes that his readers are well up in the geography 

 of Manchuria, and are able to locate with precision such bays as Sio- 

 wu-hu, Olga and St. Vladimir, but this cannot be the case with readers 

 in general, and certainly is not with myself: beyond a general and 

 vague idea of the coast line, and a school-boy recollection where 

 to look for the Korea and Saghalien, I must plead guilty to a very 

 superficial knowledge of the ship's course, and of the names of places 

 which now follow so quickly in succession : Risiri, Rifunsiri, Todo- 

 mosiri, Tsu-sima, Aniwa, and so forth, come tumbling one over another 



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