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very poorin mammals. Indeed, besides the sheep, 
the roe-deer, a few gorals and the wolf, the only 
mammals we saw were one or two chipmunks. 
Birds also were very scarce; eagles, kites, crows, 
larks and a few partridges and chukars were all we 
saw. The scarcity of animal life in this district is 
doubtless due to the corresponding lack of vegeta- 
tion, there being only very little scrub and no 
timber, either large or small. 
WaApPITI 
Our next objective was a point some thirty miles 
west of the sheep country, where, the natives 
said, there were plenty of wapiti, and even tigers. 
Thus, after a day or two spent in K’uei-hua-ch’éng 
we once more left that town, taking a westerly °' 
direction. We had the five camels again, this time 
augmented by a cart, as we had further to go and 
were taking more stuff. 
We followed the main road for seventy li (about 
20 miles), passing many farms and one or two 
small villages on the way, and finally arrived at 
Pi-ch’ien-ch’i, a large market village. There we 
put up for the night in a fairly good inn. 
Next day it was raining when we rose, and we 
were delayed till noon, when we once more set 
out, this time in a more northerly direction. The 
poor camels had a terrible time, as they slipped 
and floundered about in the mud. They cried 
piteously whenever they came to a bad part, and 
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