A Chinese Punishment. 



Shanghai and India. I therefore set Numgoon to work sewing 

 up all the heads in skins with an outer covering of felt, and they 

 were then packed in a long case securely bound round with 

 supports and iron bands, and rendered strong enough to with- 

 stand the great amount of knocking about it would receive 

 before reaching the Trans-Siberian Railway. The rxDute thereto 

 lay through Djarkend and Vierny, and thence north to Sergiopol 

 and Semipalatinsk to Omsk, a total distance of over i,ooo miles, 

 entirely done by cart and sledge. 



GATEWAY OF THE CHINESE CITY IN KULJA. 



In the packing of trophies it should be remembered by those 

 who may in the future visit the Thian Shan that all horns, and 

 those of ibex especially, should be sewn up in the skin of the 

 animals and then bound with felt, the inner covering of skin 

 preventing the horns cracking, which I was assured they are 

 liable to do unless so prepared. Mine were all done in this way, 

 and when unpacked in London found to be in excellent con- 

 dition, largely due to the care Numgoon displayed in Kulja. 



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