SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 
a rather large river called Chanding Gol, which we 
afterwards found out was the continuation of the 
river we crossed two days before reaching Lama 
Miao. We had great difficulty in crossing it, 
in its present swollen state, but finally succeeded 
without mishap, and, traversing some ugly swamps, 
pitched camp within the ruins of an ancient town 
called Sui-lang-ch’éng. The walls of this place 
were now only grass-covered mounds, while a 
grassy hummock in the centre marked the site 
of the central tower. Otherwise there was not 
a sign of former buildings. These ruins it is 
believed date from the time of the Grand Khan 
Kublai. 
From Sui-lang-ch’éng we continued our journey 
a little south of west, crossing low divides and 
wide valleys, and camping at suitable watering- 
places. Nothing of peculiar interest occurred. 
The long grass round the wells and Mongol camps 
was found to give shelter to numbers of hares, 
while now and then we would get a shot at an 
antelope. Warrington succeeded in getting a nice 
head one day with a good pair of horns. Crossing 
a low divide we saw a fine buck silhouetted against 
the evening sky. It was Warrington’s turn to 
have a shot, I having wounded and. lost a nice 
animal the day before. Accordingly he left his 
pony with me and climbed to the point where the 
antelope had disappeared. He was lucky enough 
to find on the other side a herd of ten or a dozen 
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