SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 
The following day I bagged a roe-deer with a 
very fine pair of horns. This set the others 
trying to secure good roe-deer heads. Brodie 
next bagged a large buck, whose horns, however, 
were in no way exceptional. The last day of our 
stay in this region Warrington succeeded in getting 
a pair of horns, which rivalled mine in length, 
but were not so well shaped. No one saw another 
goral, and finally we were forced to return to 
K’uei-hua-ch’éng without having secured one. 
During our stay in these mountains I had my 
traps out, and secured a vole or two, together with 
some mice and rats. Nothing new was caught. 
Though there was no large timber in this district, 
there was no lack of vegetation. Amongst other 
things we found a very delicious wild leek, which 
served well as a table dish. Wild rhubarb was 
also very plentiful, both here and in the mountains 
nearer K’uei-hua-ch’éng. We found this very 
palatable, and it served to eke out our fast dimin- 
ishing store of canned fruit. 
On June 1 we commenced our return journey to 
Kalgan. As our two companions, Schréder and 
Brodie, were not quite ready to leave, Warrington 
and I travelled alone. I decided to take the 
southern route (i.e. the route which passes south 
of the T’ai Hai). 
Leaving K’uei-hua-ch’éng we travelled first due 
south and then south-west for seventy li, putting 
up at a village named Hsia-pu-na on the plain. 
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