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herbage. This is due to the absence of coal in 

 the district, which, being transported from long 

 distances, is very expensive. There seemed to be 

 very little room, except along the valley bottoms, 

 for cultivation, but the natives looked prosperous 

 enough. 



Leaving Kalgan we returned to Tientsin, and 

 were just in time to witness the looting and burn- 

 ing of the Chinese portion of that treaty port by the 

 native troops and poHce. The same thing having 

 happened in Pekin but two nights before, things 

 were getting pretty lively once more. The sol- 

 diers who had indulged in the looting of these 

 places decamped in hundreds, and scattering 

 through the country made travelling somewhat 

 hazardous. Pao-ting Fu, and other large towns 

 along the Pe-Han Railway, were next cleaned out 

 by disaffected troops, and we were hourly expect- 

 ing news that the Sixth Division troops stationed 

 at T'ai-yiian Fu had revolted. All my collecting 

 and camping outfit, to say nothing of my survey- 

 ing instruments, my wife's and my entire ward- 

 robe, and all our household gods, were stored in 

 this town. 



As I could not hope to do any useful work 

 in Mongolia without these things, and as they 

 could not be replaced in China, I decided to 

 make an effort to recover them. Thus, accom- 

 panied by Warrington and a friend named Donald 

 R. Woods, I proceeded to T'ai-yiian Fu. On 



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