THE 



BIG GAME OF CENTRAL 

 AND WESTERN CHINA 



BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY 

 FROM SHANGHAI TO LONDON 

 OVERLAND ACROSS THE GOBI DESERT 



BY HAROLD FRANK WALLACE, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. 



AUTHOR OF "STALKS ABROAD" 



WITH A FRONTISPIECE, TEN FULL-PAGE AND TWELVE 

 HALF-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BV 

 THE AUTHOR, AND THIRTY-EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS 



Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose- 

 Now the smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain ; 



Now the Young Men's hearts are troubled for the whisper of the Trues ; 

 Now the Red Gods make their medicine again ! 



RuDVARD Kipling. 



LONDON 

 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 



1913 



