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Title: The Middle Kingdom : a survey of the geography, government, education, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, S. Wells (Samuel Wells), 1812-1884
Subjects: China
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dds to thedelicacy of the dish ; the color is light chestnut, with whitebelly. Elephants are kept at Peking for show, and are used todraw the state chariot when the Emperor goes to worship atthe Altars of Heaven and Earth, but the sixty animals seen inthe days of Kienlung, by Bell, have since dwindled to one or 324 THE MIDDLE KIXGDOM. two. Van Braam met six going into Peking, sent thither fromYunnan. The deep forests of that province also harbor therhinoceros and tapir. The horn of the former is sought afteras medicine, and theTjest pieces are carved most beautifully intoornaments or into drinking cups, which are supposed to sweatwhenever any poisonous liquid is put into them. The tapir isthe white and brown animal found in the IMalacca peninsula,and strange stories are recorded of its eating stones and copper.The wild boar grows to weigh over four hundred pounds andnearly six feet long. In cold weather its frozen carcass isbrought to Ieking, and sold at a high price. A new species of
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The Chinese Pig. hoff has been found in Formosa, about three feet long, twenty-one inches high, and showing a dorsal row of large bristles ; atliird variety occurs among the novelties discovered in Szchuenij^m moujnnensiH)^ having short ears. Wild boars are met Mitheven in the hills of Chehkiang, and seriously annoy the hus-bandmen in the lowlands by their depredations. Deep pits aredug near the l)ase of the hills, and covered Mith a bait of freshgrass, and many are annually captured or droMiied in them.They are fond of the bamboo shoots, and persons are stationednear the groves to fi-igliten them away by striking pieces ofwood together. The Chinese hollow-backed pig is known for its short legs, tup: wild boar and domestic hog. 325 round body, crooked back, and almndance of fat; the flesh isthe connnoii meat of tlie people soutli of tlie Yaiits// liiver.The black C-hinese breed, as it is called in England, is consid-ered the best pork raised in that country. The boo- in thenor

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