WHITE MICE IN SYRUP
PRIME DELICACY AMONG ASIAN NATIVES BARKING BIRDS. TAME TIGERS United P.A. — By’ Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. CHICAGO, Sunday. Herbert Stevens, leader of tlie Kelly-Roosevelt expedition into Asia, brought back a marvellous story of barking birds, and tigers that are comparatively harmless; a story of grinning grizzlies, never before seen by the eye of civilised man; of Tibetan monks who never wash, but who train “cooties*’ iu their hair to perform neat circus tricks; of natives of a forgotten land, who eat baby white mice dipped in syrup, holding the tiny rodents by the tail and slipping them down their throats raw, as we would eat an oyster. Mr. Stevens travelled 1,700 miles, 1,000 miles on foot, and 700 miles on bamboo rafts tumbling down yellow rivers. “I could not quite relish the white mice,” he said, “even after they were dipped in syrup, but the bamboo rats were not so bad.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 9
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