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I . H o o f e d . D e e r, Stag, N* 54. In Yunan, fays Du Halde, i. 122, not
taller than common dogs.
Fallow Tieer, N* 53.
Roe-buck, N” 61, poilibly this fpecies is the tail-lefs, N* 62,
being fo near to the regions where that alone is known.
M u s k .— Thibet, N' 65, according to Doftor Forjler, is found in
China. ■
Camel.— The two bufrched, N* 69, B. is very common, both
tame and wild, the laft only in the deferts; the tame is a
bcalt of burden, as in other places. The camels with feet
of the wind, are famed for their fwiftnefs. This animal
enters into the materia medica of China; the fat is called
the oil of bunches; the flelh, the milk, and even the
hair, and very dung, are admitted into the prefcrip-
tions.
Dog. “ Neque' alio ex animali numerojior materia g a n e a a
remark of Pliny’s, may be as well applied to these Chinefe as to
the Romans. No animal fupplies them with more delicacies,
for it is the foundation o f all their feafts, and is in
fejifon the whole year round. Their hams are allowed to
be exquiiite in the tafte o f every nation.
Rhin o cero s.— Du Halde, i. 121, fays that the Rhinoceros, N" 81,
is found in the province of Huang-ft, in Lat. 25°.
E l e p h a n t .
q u a d r u p e d s .
E le p h a n t .— N* 165, is placed, like the camel, in the materia
medica o f China; they are found in the provinces of
- Huang-f and Yunan. Do they exift there at prefent?
N o n e a r e a p p l ie d t o u f e . f
II. D i g i t a t e d .
A p e .— Great black apes, with features like the human, in t h e i l D ig i t a t e d .
ifland of Hai-nan ; fcarce.
Grey apes, in the fame ifland; very ugly, and common.
Apes with yellow hair; in ihape, and ihrilnefs o f cry like
dogs : In. the province of Hyang-fi. None of thefe fpecies af-
certained.
Dog. Dogs are a favorite food in China, and their flelh is common
in the fhamblesi When the butchers are dragging
(as is cuftomary) half a dozen to the flaughter-houfe, they
are attacked by all the dogs within hearing o f theories o f
their fellows, fo that they are obliged to have people to
defend them with fticks*
The common people of China will eat any animal, even i f they
have died o f ficknefs, fuch as dead horfes and dogs that they fee
floating down the canals. China is certainly the moll plentiful,
yet from the vaft fuperabundance of the inhabitants, no people
fuffer fuch mifery as the loweft order ; the produce of the earth
frequently is infuflicient to fupport fuch multitudes; this,not
want of affeaion, compels them to expofe their infants to death.
In China, children are efteemed a peculiar blefling. In times o f
famine, or when the mothers fall lick, or their milk fails, they
expofe