SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE 
Kalgan. It had been decided that the nearest 
point where we could hope to get any shooting was 
Hsi-wan-tzti, where, we were told, a certain amount 
of small timber, growing on the steep mountains, 
gave shelter to a few roe-deer and some small 
game. Our road lay up the main valley north- 
ward from Kalgan, and soon we were up to our 
necks in trouble. The whole valley was one mass 
of ice, accumulated during the winter by the daily 
overflowing of the permanent stream and the 
nightly freezing of the surface water. Now, the 
weather becoming daily more mild, this ice had 
weakened considerably, so that the wheels of 
our heavily laden carts went through, while 
the teams slipped and floundered about in their 
desperate struggles to disengage the unwieldy 
vehicles. No sooner was one cart free than the 
next would fall into the same difficulty. By 
dint of much exertion, the breaking of ice, and the 
concentration of horse power upon the cart in 
difficulties, our carters finally succeeded in getting 
them across the half-mile or so of ice on to dry 
ground. So long did this take, however, that we 
could not accomplish more than fifteen miles 
the first day, and were obliged to put up at a 
small village named Hsin-yin-tzi, where we ob- 
tained comfortable quarters. 
The following day we continued up the valley, 
now running in an easterly direction. We were 
hampered by more ice in a very rotten condition. 
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