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a rather large river called Chanding Gol, which we 

 afterwards found out was the continuation of the 

 river we crossed two days before reaching Lama 

 Miao. We had great difficulty in crossing it, 

 in its present swollen state, but finally succeeded 

 without mishap, and, traversing some ugly swamps, 

 pitched camp within the ruins of an ancient town 

 called Sui-lang-ch'eng. The walls of this place 

 were now only grass-covered mounds, while a 

 grassy hummock in the centre marked the site 

 of the central tower. Otherwise there was not 

 a sign of former buildings. These ruins it is 

 believed date from the time of the Grand Khan 

 Kublai. 



From Sui-lang-ch'eng we continued our journey 

 a little south of west, crossing low divides and 

 wide valleys, and camping at suitable watering- 

 places. Nothing of peculiar interest occurred. 

 The long grass round the wells and Mongol camps 

 was found to give shelter to numbers of hares, 

 while now and then we would get a shot at an 

 antelope. Warrington succeeded in getting a nice 

 head one day with a good pair of horns. Crossing 

 a low divide we saw a fine buck silhouetted against 

 the evening sky. It was Warrington's turn to 

 have a shot, I having wounded and lost a nice 

 animal the day before. Accordingly he left his 

 pony with me and climbed to the point where the 

 antelope had disappeared. He was lucky enough 

 to find on the other side a herd of ten or a dozen 



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