October 23, 1917 - (continued) He spoke of Sir Richard Dane, who has hunted game in East Africa, but is now away from Peking, being in Mongolia. Langdon Warner has given up his school of archaeology and returned to America or Tokyo. Dr. Morrison told me that the keeper of the zoo had lost many of the mammals originally purchased from Hagenbeck because the Chinese keepers had stolen the food from the animals and let them starve. The head keeper, a European, had gone almost insane trying to prevent this sort of cruelty. The Chinese have no such sympathy for helpless animal life as we possess. This afternoon, we visited the Central Park, a pleasure park near the Forbidden City. Here are kept a paddock of axis deer and stags, but all of the males are harmless, having had the horns sawed off when in the velvet for sale as Medicine, a profitable affair for the Park authorities. Somerby says the deer are farmed for this purpose in some localities. In the Park are tea houses, lakes, flower beds, juniper groves etc. and many better class Chinese are seen here. It was sad to note the absence of lovers in the shaded walks. The two sexes were never seen together, the women walking in pairs or trios, and the men doing likewise.