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ne--Hunting serow--A bat apartment house CHAPTER V THE YEN-PING REBELLION A message from Mr. Caldwell--Refugees from Yen-ping--Situation in the city--Fighting on Monday morning--Wounded men at the hospital--We do Red Cross work--More fighting--A Chinese puzzle--The missionaries save the city--The narrow escape of a young Chinese--The mission cook--Return to Foochow CHAPTER VI HUNTING THE GREAT INVISIBLE Tiger lairs--Mr. Caldwell's method of hunting--His first tiger--Habits of tigers--Experiences with the Great Invisible--Killing a man eater--Chinese superstitions--Hunting in the lair CHAPTER VII THE BLUE TIGER Arriving at Lung-tao--The blue tiger--Mr. Caldwell's first view of the beast--The lair in the Long Ravine--Bad luck with the tiger--A meeting in the dark--Ling-suik monastery--Life at the temple--Fukien Province as a collecting ground CHAPTER VIII THE WOMEN OF CHINA Y.B.A. Schools for girls--Position of women--The Confucian rules--Woman's life in the home--Foot binding--Early marriage--A Chinese wedding CHAPTER IX VOYAGING TO YUeN-NAN Outfitting in Hongkong--Food--Guns--Cameras--_En route_ to Tonking--The Island of Hainan--We engage a cook at Paik-hoi--Arrival in Haiphong--Loss of our Ammunition--Hanoi--The railroad to Yuen-nan Fu--Yuen-nan--The Chinese Foreign Office endorses our plans CHAPTER X ON THE ROAD TO TA-LI FU Our caravan--The Yuen-nan pack saddle--Temple camps--Chinese _mafus_--Roads--Country--Ignorance of a Chinese scholar--New mammals--Village life--Opium growing--An opium scandal--Goitre--The Chinese "Mountain schooner"--Horses--Miss Morgan--Brigands--Our guard of soldiers CHAPTER XI TA-LI FU Hsia-kuan--Summer temperature--Lake--Graves--Pagodas--Mr. H.G. Evans--Foreigners of Ta-li Fu--Chinese mandarins--Mammals at Ta-li--Caravan horses and mules--The cook becomes ill CHAPTER XII LI-CHIANG, AND THE "TEMPLE OF THE FLOWERS" Traveling to Li-chiang--Our entrance into the city--The surprise of the foreigners--The temple--Excellent collecting--Small mammals--The Moso natives--Customs--The Snow Mountain--Baron Haendel-Mazzetti CHAPTER XIII CAMPING IN THE CLOUDS Moso hunters--Primitive guns--Cross-bows and poisoned arrows--Dogs--A porcupine--New mammals--We find a new camp on the mountain CHAPTER XIV THE FIRST GORAL Killed near camp--A sacrifice to the God of the Hunt--Small mammals--The second goral CHAPTER XV MORE GORALS
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