TRAXSFKRRING THE BAGGAGE FROM THE CHINESE CART TO THE AUTO.MOUII.K ; AESO 

 SETTLING WITH THE CARTER EOR HIS SERVICI'.S 



The foreigner in the white shirt — my companion on the trip — is weighing out the hmip 

 silver {sycee) to pay the carter the proper amount. The lady in the picture is a trained 

 nurse who traveled a distance of go miles into Mongolia to call on some friends. This is 

 the place where we bade farewell to the Chinese. The roads are mucli better here, hard but 

 very rough. With our additional baggage we had a very heavy load. 



trade toljacco to some of the Mongols 

 who had assisted us, we took to the road 

 again. The roads were now in much 

 better shape ; they were dry and not very 

 smooth, but this was much better than 

 mud. 



Soon we stopped at a well to replenish 

 our water supply. This was a dug well 

 about 70 feet deep. The bucket was a 

 piece of untanned bullock hide, with the 

 hair on the inside, and every time we 

 drew water some of the hair would come 

 off. Americans might not consider it 

 quite sanitary. 



The days are warm and sunny here, 

 but the nights are so cold that it was 

 necessary for us to drain the radiator of 

 the car to keep the pipes from bursting. 

 From that time on we had to do this 

 every night until we reached Urga. 



Late on the following day we passed 

 over a level plain and several herds of 



antelope were sighted ; they were scared 

 at the motor-car and we could not get 

 very near to them. Soon we entered the 

 l)arren j)lain and sto])ped the car to speak 

 to the driver of a camel-cart. 



THE OVERLAXn LIMITED OE THE DESERT 



These camel-carts are the "overland 

 limited" of the desert and are used as 

 passenger conveyances. The body of the 

 cart is covered with heavy felt, which 

 will defy the coldest weather, and in all 

 they are quite comfortable, if one can 

 only forget that there are no springs 

 under them. 



Pangkiang, the first telegraph station, 

 was reached about dark. Here we found 

 the first 10 gallons of the gasoline which 

 we had sent forward from Tientsin a 

 couple of weeks before shi])ping the car. 

 The supply was tranship])ed at Kalgan 

 and forwarded to Urga by camel cara- 



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