If a carcass remains unbutchered for more than two days the accumulated gases can cause it to explode and spray decomposed entrails over a wide area.

The Yün-nan T'ung-chih, ch. 189, fols. 2a-5a, states that the P'u 獛 savages had a tail several inches long, and that they lived in nests in the mountains and forests. Their land adjoined the Ai-lao 哀牢, or the present Pao-shan 保山 of Yün-nan.

The low incidence of extended households in my data and the high proportion of high-caste residents precludes a meaningful test of this hypothesis here.

Then in early January 1947, Communist units retreating from northern Kiangsu joined with others from central Shantung to counter-attack their pursuers at Tsao-chuang in southern Shantung.