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CHAPTER XI 



MONGOLS AT HOME 



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The forests of Mongolia A bad day's work The Terelche 

 River Tserin Dorchy's family A wild-wood romance 

 Evening in the valley Doctoring the natives A clever 

 lama A popular magazine Return of Tserin Dorchy 

 Independence His hunt on the Sacred Mountain 

 Punishment Hunting with the Mongols Tsamba, and 

 "buttered tea" A splendid roebuck The fortune of a 

 naturalist Eating the deer's viscera The field meet of 

 the Terelche Valley Horse races Wrestling . .143 



CHAPTER XII 



NOMADS OF THE FOREST 



An ideal camp The first wapiti A roebuck Currants and 

 berries Catching fish Enormous trout A rainy day in 

 camp A wapiti seen from camp Mongolian weather 

 Flowers Beautiful country A musk deer Habits and 

 commercial value A wild boar Success and failure in 

 hunting We kill two wapiti Return to Urga Mr. and 

 Mrs. MacCallie Packing the collections Across the 

 plains to Peking 161 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE PASSING OF MONGOLIAN MYSTERY 



Importance of Far East Desert, plain, and water in Mon- 

 golia The Gobi Desert Agriculture Pastoral products 

 Treatment of wool and camel hair Marmots as a 

 valuable asset Urga a growing fur market Chinese 

 merchants Labor Gold mines Transportation Motor 

 trucks Passenger motor service Forests Aeroplanes 

 Wireless telegraph 175 



CHAPTER XIV 



THE GREAT RAM OF THE SHANSI MOUNTAINS 



Brigands, Chinese soldiers and "battles" The Mongolian 

 sheep Harry Caldwell Difference between North and 



