A large bowl of rice costs four cash, an egg five cash, and the Chinaman strikes a balance in his mind and sees more nourishment in one bowl of rice than in three eggs.

Of meat there is pork--pork in plenty, and pork only.

Pigs and dogs are the scavengers of China.

None of the carnivora are more omnivorous than the Chinese.

"A Chinaman has the most unscrupulous stomach in the world," says Meadows; "he will eat anything from the root to the leaf, and from the hide to the entrails." He will not even despise the flesh of dog that has died a natural death.