Weihaiwei, July 15.—am afraid to record anything further about Hares just. now, in case somebody writes to tell me that hares don't eat peanuts in Scotland, or something of that sort, The fact remains that their vegetarian diet here seems to be a very varied one, and I find that among their favourite dishes are the young leaves of turnips, beetroots and pea-nut plants: my turnips are indeed a sorry signt, pushing their bald white heads through the soil with only a little tuft of leaf-stalks to de-cerate them, so that I sometimes feel that I ought to provide them with some kind of a wig or toupee. Out on the hillsides where the farmers grow their pea-nuts on terraced land, a most unusual collection of what I suppose I must call "scare-hares" has sprung up, often with the addition of little barricades of very ancient fishing-net...generally stretched across the end of a terrace with the obvious intention
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