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a vast herd of antelopes, numbering several 

 hundreds. We could not get nearer than about 

 four hundred yards, so we tried several long 

 shots. In this way I succeeded in securing one 

 antelope — my first. Warrington shot another a 

 little later. It was a wonderful sight to see so 

 many antelopes, all tearing across the rolling 

 prairies. Our firing made them split up into small 

 herds, usually led by large does, and soon they 

 were scattered for miles in every direction. 



That night we reached Chinese settled country 

 once more, putting up at an inn named Ha-pa- 

 ch'iao. Here our road joined the main Kalgan- 

 Lama Miao road, which we had left soon after 

 leaving Huang-hua-p'ing, at the edge of the Mon- 

 golian Plateau. We had followed what is com- 

 monly known as the Mongol road, which lies to 

 the north and west of the other, and has for its 

 chief attraction the fact that there are fewer 

 Chinese settlers, so that one can see more of the 

 Mongols in their native haunts. 



From Ha-pa-ch'iao to Pei-sui Nor, our next 

 day s journey, the road lay all the way through 

 Chinese farms. 



On July 25 we reached Lama Miao, after a short 

 run from Pei-sui Nor of not more than twenty- 

 five li. We pitched our tents on an open grassy 

 stretch between the town and the two great 

 temples, from which the place gets its name. 



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