SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE 
herbage. This is due to the absence of coal in 
the district, which, being transported from long 
distances, is very expensive. There seemed to be 
very little room, except along the valley bottoms, 
for cultivation, but the natives looked prosperous 
enough. 
Leaving Kalgan we returned to Tientsin, and 
were just in time to witness the looting and burn- 
ing of the Chinese portion of that treaty port by the 
native troops and police. The same thing having 
happened in Pekin but two nights before, things 
were getting pretty lively once more. The sol- 
diers who had indulged in the looting of these 
places decamped in hundreds, and _ scattering 
through the country made travelling somewhat 
hazardous. Pao-ting Fu, and other large towns 
along the Pe-Han Railway, were next cleaned out 
by disaffected troops, and we were hourly expect- 
ing news that the Sixth Division troops stationed 
at T’ai-yiian Fu had revolted. All my collecting 
and camping outfit, to say nothing of my survey- 
ing instruments, my wife’s and my entire ward- 
robe, and all our household gods, were stored in 
this town. 
As I could not hope to do any useful work 
in Mongolia without these things, and as they 
could not be replaced in China, I decided to 
make an effort to recover them. Thus, accom- 
panied by Warrington and a friend named Donald 
R. Woods, I proceeded to T’ai-yiian Fu. On 
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