SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 
The two beaters carried the carcase back to 
camp, while we made the circuit of one of the high 
peaks in search of more game. Nothing more 
was seen, however, except a few roe-deer, one 
of which I shot. 
Schréder and Brodie. after witnessing the finishing 
of our wapiti, continued up over the top of the 
peak, and descended the other side -into some 
favourable looking country. Here they caught 
sight of five wapiti feeding away down in a valley, 
and by dint of careful stalking managed to bag 
two. These were larger and older than the one 
we had already secured, but in no way remarkable. 
Unfortunately it was the wrong season for horns, 
in spite of the fact that the Chinese had told us 
that we might expect to find good heads. This 
being the case we decided to hunt no more wapiti, 
hoping some day to revisit the same country at a 
more propitious season.! 
1In November, 19138, the author, accompanied by Captain 
T. Holcomb of the U.S. Marines, visited some mountains in 
the Kuei-hua-Ch’éng district, said to contain wapiti. This 
information turned out to be correct, and they had splendid 
sport, securing five wapiti bucks, and several gorals. 
One of the wapiti, shot by the Captain, had a really magnifi- 
cent pair of horns, with twelve points, six and six, and measur- 
ing :—length along curve, right 41 inches, left 394 inches ; 
length, tip to base, right 34 inches, left 314 inches; widest 
spread 294 inches; basal circumference, right 94 inches, 
left 9 inches. 
As is usually the case the deer were confined to a com- 
paratively small area and frequented certain ravines and 
valleys almost exclusively. To exactly what species this 
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