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spreading republic, is impotent while 

 his country is being surely but slowly 

 walled-in. Mongolia, with an area of a 

 million and a-quarter square miles, is 

 inhabited by some two million nomads 

 pacific in the extreme, practicallx' chil- 

 dren, who fall an eas}' pre\' to the wil)- 

 Chinamen on the one side, or the (i\er- 

 ci\ilised Russian on the other. I^ir 

 political reasons the Manchu d\nast\- 

 of China prohibited Chinese settlement 

 in Mongolia. The newly-formed Re- 

 publican Government altered all that 

 and proceeded desperately' to colonise 

 the country, having little regard for 



the natives. Tliese got together and 

 declared their cx)untr\' independent, to 

 the amusement of the Chinese. The 

 new Go\crnmen( dismissed all China- 

 men ami .Maiichus from [losts thev 

 were lilling, and issued a decree that 

 no Chinaman shall be allowed in Mon- 

 golia unless he embraces Lamaism. 

 Naturally these two million nomads, 

 primitive beings with no moiiev, who 

 ado])t tea as the measure of xalue and 

 exchange, could not ho])e to build u]) 

 an\' stable kingdom out of nothing, and 

 the (io\ernment at Pekin scoffed. 

 ^'u;lll-.Shl-l\ai and his adxisers did not 



