SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 



spent the first night at a wayside inn called 

 Ma-ni-t'u. 



The following night we put up at a large village 

 called Miao-t'an, after an uneventful journey. 



Next day we passed the ruins of an ancient 

 town called Hsin-hua-ch'eng. Here in a temple 

 yard we saw two large automobiles and a wagon. 

 One of the former was painted a bright yellow and 

 had a figure of the Imperial Dragon on its sides. 

 The others were painted grey. On inquiry we 

 were told that they had been placed there in 

 October, 1911, in readiness to carry the Manchu 

 Imperial Family to Urga, in case the Revolu- 

 tionaries ever succeeded in driving the Manchus 

 from Peking. These fine vehicles now lay un- 

 sheltered and uncared for, rapidly falling into 

 decay, sad emblems of the fallen Manchu dynasty. 



August 21 found us once more in Kalgan, and 

 two days later we reached Tientsin and the end 

 of another year's travel, sport and adventure on 

 the Sino-Mongolian Frontier. 



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