A hunter like Namojing depends for hig living chiefly on the wapiti, of which a few still exist in the Ta Ching Shan (the range that runs east and west between Kueihua and Paotow, on the southern edge of the Mongolian plateau) in the limit. ed area where it is still wooded. At one point there is.a temple, the Wu Tan Chao (Chao is the local word for miao or temple) where the wapiti are protected. Not only are they regarded es holy, but in wi for they are fed, The lamas blow fon their long groaning—trumpe: and the wapiti troop down the vi ley to get their forage, Even these wapiti are poached sometimes by the Chinese, who first, however, ry to drive them out of the temple preserves, where the sound of shooting would draw down upon them not only divine resentment but the physical wrath of the In the part of she forest which not temple domain they are hunted without mercy. Usually the hunt.
out in parties of three and four, to combine stalking with driving.' They are often out in the open for a week or more, with no bedding and no provision but a little flour, which is eaten with cold wat-ex; and they only give the elk peace when it is too dark to shoot. Even a party will often come back with no spoils: while sometimes a party will overdrive its quarry, which runs on to some other party, by whom the head is secured. We did not wonder that Namojing, when permission was given to grow opium, retired from wapiti hunting. It is so much easier to keep-a fow beds of poppies. free from weeds, while the season's.proft is even Fearsome Creed to Serve in the Buddhist's Search for Merit: Girdle of Skulls and Lust for Revenge: On " Damming " One's "Yi"
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