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CHAPTER IV 



NEW TRAVELS ON AN OLD TRAIL 



PAGB 



a wheel — A dry camp — More motor trouble — Meeting 

 with Langdon Warner — Our game of hide-and-seek in 

 the Orient — An accident near Panj-kiang — We use mut- 

 ton fat for oil — Arrival at Hei-ma-hou — A wet ride to 

 Kalgan — Trouble at the gate ...... 27 



Winter in Peking — We leave for Mongolia — Inner Mongolia 

 in spring — Race with a camel— Geese and cranes — Go- 

 phers — An electric light in the desert — Chinese motor 

 companies — An antelope buck — A great herd — Brilliant 

 atmosphere of Mongolia — Notes on antelope speed . 38 



CHAPTER V 



ANTELOPE MOVIE STARS 



Moving pictures under difficulties — A lost opportunity — ^A 

 zoological garden in the desert — Killing a wolf — Speed 

 of a wolf — Antelope steak and parfum de chameau — 

 A caravan — A wild wolf-hunt — Sulphuric acid — The 

 Turin Plains 50 



CHAPTER VI 



THE SACRED CITY OF THE LIVING BUDDHA 



A city of contrasts — The Chinese quarter like frontier Amer- 

 ica — ^A hamlet of modern Russia — ^An indescribable 

 mixture of Mongoliaj Russia and China in West Urga — 

 Description of a Mongol woman — Urga like a pageant on 

 the stage of a theater — The sacred mountain — The palace 

 of the "Living God" — Love for western inventions — ^A 

 strange scene at the Hutukhtu's palace — A bed for the 

 Living Buddha — Lamaism — The Lama City — Ceremony 

 in the temple — Prayer wheels — Burial customs — Corpses 

 eaten by dogs — The dogs of Mongolia — Cleanliness — 

 Food — Morality — "H. C. L." in Urga — ^A horrible prison 

 — Mr. F. A. Larsen 62 



