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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY." "SEPTEMBER. 29rm: 1925-

A NATURALIST IN CHINA.

MR. ARTHUR DE SOWERBY'S NEW

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

On August 1st Captain the Hon. Arthur Stopford; C.M.G., began tem-

Mr. Arthur De Sowerby, F.IO.S.porary service in the Naval Intelligence Division at the Admiralty). Captaja F.R.Z, has rendered a meal service by his Stopford was until recently in command latest book, A Naturalist's Notebook on of the aircraft-carrier Hermes Com- China, Mr. Sowerby has written several mander C. W. Tinson, Q.B.E.. who was bocks about China, and he states in his appointed to the Brynil, navigation preface that this new work may be look-school ship at Portsmouth, from August ed upon as complementary to his Fur and is until September sath, commanded Feather in North China, which was de- the surveying ship Troquois, in China for voted almost exclusively to the mammals three years before last February. and hirds of the country north of thei The Japanese cruiser Iwate will innka Yangtze River. However that may be, on extended cruise during the winter for this new volume seems to contain just the training of paral cadets. In th what is wanted by the naturalist in Chini, surse of this she will visit Hongkong at and particularly those of the amateur the end of November, Singapore in De- The ground covered by Member, and during the first three months Sowerby is amazing in its extent and of 190 will cruise in Australian and New Zealand waters. The parts at which richness, and while this is scarcely a popular work in the sense that that she will call, staying from four to six

days at

teach. are Fremantle, Adelaide, adjective is applied nowadays to scientific

Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Wellington, publications intraded for the general

and Auckland. The rate is an English- public it is certainly a most comprehen built ship, having been launched by sive guide for anyone with leanings in Mesara. Armstrong, Whitworthi& Co., on the direction of natural history in China. the Tyne in 1900. Originally an armour- Mr. Sowerby's two opening chapters, et cruiser, she is now classed as a coast entitled The Voices of the Forest" and defence vessel.

The Heart of the Wild," are calculated to make the exile in the tropics thoroughly homesick. These impressions of the Man churian forest drive home only zou sharply | the realisation that a man who deliberate until the apring. The herbyshire will ly leaves behind his own climate, who forsakes a soil rich in the literary and historic tradition of his race, gives up the deepest contentment that life affords. whatever compensations be may find else. where.

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Arrangements have now been completed. for the opening of the trooping season at Southampton. Six vessels. aze pre- paring for a busy time, which will last

make the first sailing. She was to leave Southampton on September 2nd for Bermuda and Jamaica. Returning to Bermuda she will make for Malta and Port Said, and then on to Colombo, Hongkong, and other Far Eastern port IMPERIAL HUNTING GROUNDS..

The appointment, dates from August Putting aside vain regrets, and returning

S.. to the pleasant paths which may be traced 20th of Paymaster-Commander L. in Mr. Sowerby's hook, one may note a Brown to be Secretary to the Rear- most interesting chapter on the natural Admiral and Senior Naval Officer in the history of the Imperial Hunting Grounds. Yangtaze. Promoted in January "last,, This preserve of the Manchu Emperors, 1 while serving as Secretary to the Captain- comprising several thousands of acres, atin.Charge at Portland, Raymaster-Com- one time sheltered the Peking stag, the mander Brown served in the war, on the tiger and black bear, and mary smaller staff of Admiral Sir George Patey, in creatures such as the wild goat, the roe the "mitralia, "Enviathan, and Cuxur,, And the fox. These woodlands have pro and also in the Australian cruiser vided in effect a wild beast and bird | Melbourne, while in 1018 he was acretary sanctuary, since the Imperial hunting to Hear-Admiral. E, F. Bruen in. the expeditions ceased more than fifty years | „ifinotaur. He succeeds. Paymaster- ago, and the forest guards 'kept the Lieutenant-Commander E. * A. Symes, woods inviolate against the hunter and who has served during the two years woodsinan. Soon after the Hunting that. Rear-Ailmimal, D., Marray Anderson Grounds were thrown open to the public had held the command. The latter is now Mr. Sowerby organised a party to ex-being succeeded by Rear-Admiral J. E. plore then, and the fruits of his journey Cameron, C.B., M.Y.O. Paymaster- are contained in this chapter. The sad Lieutenant C W. Best, from the Com- fate that has overtaken this sanctuary imodore's office at Portsmouth Naval described by Mr. Sowerby in these Depot, is also appointed to the gunbont words: Since the Revolution, however, Hee to assist the Secretary. the Hunting Grounds have been thrown. open to the Chinese farmer and settler,. The new Secretary to the Rear-Admiral the old Imperial family, who are still the (S) will be Paymaster-Commander B. L. owners, and being in need of funds, Jackson2, C.B.E., who was promoted in having found this an easy means of rais. April last, after serving in the aircraft- ing roney. The settlers have been rapidly carrier runs on the China Station. cutting away the forests, and professional banters have come in and killed off the greater part of the game and other wild animals, and to-day the whole face of the land is turned from woodlands to smiling farmlands, and only in the more inaccess ible parts of the mountains and deep ravines is anything left of the old forests and their denizens."

CHINA PONIES..

The cruiser Diomede, Captain C. E. Kennedy-Purvis, arrived at Portsmouth on August 29th from China. The place of the Diomede has temporarily been taken by the Concord, Captain A. R. W. Woods, D.S... from the Mediterranean, until such time as the large cruiser Fiadictive, Captain G. F. Hyde, RAN., arrives on the station. The Diomede will be transferred to the New Zealand Government, which a year ago offered to maintain a second cruiser of the same type as the Dunedin, already out there.

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"FRESH WATER FISHES,

Racing enthusiasts will be interested in Mr. Sowerby's researches into the pedigree of the China Pony. Discussions have taken place în racing circles as to whether, the past standard of racing ponies on racecourses in China is to ke

In dealing with the freshwater fishes. maintained, and if so, how is it to be of China, and the possibilities of sport in managed with the increasing difficulty of the country, Mr. Sowerby "remarks:- securing first-class animals of a pure The point may be emphasised once more breed and how racing is to be kept with that the reason why good fishing is not in the means of the average member of ❘ usually to be had in China. is that the the race clubs. Mr. Sowerby points out Chinese themselves go in for fishing in that these discussions have centred to a far too intensive a manner, the result considerable extent on the question of being that the denizens of the lesser water what the Chins Pony really is and he ways, where alone the angler might says, referring to this hardy little animal. reasonably expect to obtain the sport be "He is called the China Pony, which seeks, are rendered altogether too shy to name presumably dates from the time be tempted. Such large fish as do ocenr when foreigners first came to China and owe their very existence to their caution bought ponies from local native dealers or cunning in avoiding the ubiquitous without knowing that they all came from Chinese fisherman, and it is not likely Mongolia. There are real China ponios, that they are going to succumb to the that is to say, ponies that are barn atal wiles of a European sportsman, be he Bred in China and belong to breeds that never so adroit. It is only in the deep are indigenons to the country, but these water of the larger rivers and lakes that come from the west, are small, and are sizeable and unsophisticated fish, such as never used for racing, and seldom for any might easily be taken in the approved other purposes, except for children to sporting manner, are to be found. Some ride, by Europeans in China. Thus the times, however, these large fish are China Pony is in reality a Mongol carried by floods across country, and ne Pony, and while we may continue to the waters subside find themselves in use the old name we should never lose canals, creeks, smali streams or even in sight of this fact. The real questions to ponds, and it is then that those keen on be determined aro whether or not the fly fishing and angling generally might try ponies that are reared throughout the their luck with the beat. prospect of length and breadth of Mongolia can be success. Such as, certainly the case in considered as conforming to one type, and, dependent upon that question, whe titer or dot the ponies that have been raced in China up to date have all been of one type, and that the same type in the one found in Mongolia. Finally Mr. Sowerby enumerates what he believes to A Naturalist's Notebook in China is

be eleven characteristics of a pure-bred China Pony.

(Continued on nezt Column),

the vicinity of Tientsia, for after the great flood of 1917, varioní local enthusiasts made some fine catches of really large fish in the creeks and ponds round the Race Course, which fish bad undoubtedly been left there by the flood waters."

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