xiv CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XI 



MONGOLS AT HOME 



PAGE 



The forests of Mongolia — A bad day's work — The Terelche 

 River — Tserin Dorchy's family — ^A wild-wood romance 

 — Evening in the valley — Doctoring the natives — ^A clever 

 lama — ^A popular magazine — Return of Tserin Dorchy 

 — Independence — His hunt on the Sacred Mountain — 

 Punishment — Hunting with the Mongols — Tsamba and 

 "buttered tea" — A splendid roebuck — The fortune of a 

 naturalist — Eating the deer's viscera — The field meet of 

 the Terelche Valley — Horse races — ^Wrestling . .143 



CHAPTER XII 



NOMADS OF THE FOREST 



An ideal camp — The first wapiti — ^A roebuck — Currants and 

 berries — Catching fish — Enormous trout — ^A rainy day in 

 camp — A wapiti seen from camp — Mongolian weather — 

 Flowers — Beautiful country — A musk deer — Habits and 

 commercial value — A wild boar — Success and failure in 

 hunting — We kill two wapiti — Return to Urga — Mr. and 

 Mrs. MacCallie — Packing the collections — Across the 

 plains to Peking ........ l6l 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE PASSING OF MONGOLIAN MYSTERY 



Importance of Far East — Desert, plain, and water in Mon- 

 golia — The Gobi Desert — ^Agriculture — Pastoral products 

 — Treatment of wool and camel hair — Marmots as a 

 valuable asset — Urga a growing fur market — Chinese 

 merchants — Labor — Gold mines — Transportation — Motor 

 trucks — Passenger motor service — Forests — ^Aeroplanes 

 — Wireless telegraph 175 



CHAPTER XIV 



THE GREAT RAM OF THE SHANSI MOUNTAINS 



Brigands, Chinese soldiers and "battles" — The Mongolian 

 sheep — Harry Caldwell — ^Difference between North and 



