I was speaking recently to a enter who had fallen" Into. their hands. He was caught while on a visit fo his home, 'The bandits kept him in a {emple, and as a form of forlure, pressed' empty cartridge eases into his Mesh. He slipped his ropes and escaped one night, but he has been laid up for one month os a result of the ill treatment he received. Scarcely a week passes without a patient coming into the hoapltat here suffering from gunshot wounds, The last came in two days ago, He had been shot through one lung and the back of his head, After he had fallen the bandits also gave him a severe beating.
Besides bandits there are tigers in the hills at present. There. a plenty of these animals in the wilder districts of Fukien and hunters depend on them for a living. Some years ago I met one of these men In hospital. "He had sighted a tiger, but his old-fashioned gun burst and his loft hand had to be amputated. said that large animals such og tigers have a definite beat, round which they go once a year,'so that at any season he could make a rough guess where the tigers would be.
T have seen the paths which tigers make, but do not know whether the hunter's statement that these animals fetch a compass once a year is correct not. At the time of writing there is a man in St, Luke's Hospital, Pu-tien, who was mauled by a tiger La week, He had set a simple trap t0 jcateh the beast, A. string is stretch-fed across the path and attached to a bow which is fixed with a poisoned arrow. Immediately the string Is touched, the arrow is released, and Is generally fatal,
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