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atore-box, I have had no trouble but to pick them 
up. I can tell that complacent know-nothing that 
he is cpiite mistaken. With what exertions, for 
instance, are those great carnivorous ground-beetles, 
the Carabi, taken ! One would stare with amaze- 
ment at certain enthusiasts (for I have imbued 
many with* the love of beetles) rushing wildly over 
the boulders and large flat stones in dried-up water- 
courses, at the “ imminent deadly risk ” of bruised 
shins and sprained ankles, eager in the pursuit of 
tantalizing, active Cicindelae, huge stones upturned 
in their course over the plain, and their habiliments 
torn as they forced their way through the scrub 
along some beach-fringing belt of trees. Here in 
Manchuria we used to land in a ship s boat, and weie 
left to the tender mercies of the moscpiitoes and 
bears ; the gnats being put first because their name 
is legion, and their torment is nearly unbearable. 
Bears, however, are so “few and far between,' 
that although I have several of their skulls, I only 
had a good look at one, and he escaped with his 
valuable life, though several of us thirsted foi 
