CHAPTER VII 
THE MONGOLIAN PLATEAU 
ULY 15 saw us once more on the march. In 
Kalgan we had met Mr. F. A. Larson of the 
British and Foreign Bible Society, and he had 
very kindly lent us a cart and four ponies, to- 
gether with the services of one of his Mongol 
servants, whom we called Wu Lama. This man 
spoke Chinese and was to act as guide to our party 
as far as Lama Miao, our objective. As our outfit 
was rather heavy, we had to hire another cart for 
the journey. 
We started rather late in the day, so that we 
could only make T’u-ching-tzii that night. Our 
road lay north by north-west from Kalgan up a 
narrow valley, winding through the steep and rocky 
hills, which form a fringe to the great Mongolian 
Plateau. 
Next day, after continuing up the valley ten li 
(3 miles) to its source, we began the difficult 
climb up the famous Han-nor-pa pass, which 
is one of the most rugged and hardest to 
negotiate in all North China. It took us five 
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