SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 



The following day I bagged a roe-deer with a 

 very fine pair of horns. This set the others 

 trying to secure good roe-deer heads. Brodie 

 next bagged a large buck, whose horns, however, 

 were in no way exceptional. The last day of our 

 stay in this region Warrington succeeded in getting 

 a pair of horns, which rivalled mine in length, 

 but were not so well shaped. No one saw another 

 goral, and finally we were forced to return to 

 K'uei-hua-ch'eng without having secured one. 



During our stay in these mountains I had my 

 traps out, and secured a vole or two, together with 

 some mice and rats. Nothing new was caught. 



Though there was no large timber in this district, 

 there was no lack of vegetation. Amongst other 

 things we found a very delicious wild leek, which 

 served well as a table dish. Wild rhubarb was 

 also very plentiful, both here and in the mountains 

 nearer K'uei-hua-ch'eng. W^e found this very 

 palatable, and it served to eke out our fast dimin- 

 ishing store of canned fruit. 



On June 1 we commenced our return journey to 

 Kalgan. As our two companions, Schroder and 

 Brodie, were not quite ready to leave, Warrington 

 and I travelled alone. I decided to take the 

 southern route (i.e. the route which passes south 

 of the T'ai Hai). 



Leaving K'uei-hua-ch'eng we travelled first due 

 south and then south-west for seventy li, putting 

 up at a village named Hsia-pu-na on the plain. 



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