On Monday, a body was found in Jiayu county, central Hubei province, four days after the remains of another porpoise were recovered from Dongting Lake, a tributary of the Yangtze in central Hunan province, news website Thepaper.cn said.

[…] he filled all their throats with it, so that those poor wretches were by it made to cough like foxes, crying, Ha, Pantagruel, how how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us.

Most of the farming at present is done in the sticks, that is, in the large, dead, and often blackened trunks of trees standing in most of the cultivated fields around. There are but few new towns in the Delta where the sticks are not to be seen, and much damage is sometimes done when these old deadenings, as they are called, are set on fire.

[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.