SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE 
The whole country from Lama Miao to Tabool 
reminded me of the North West Territories of 
Canada, with its stretches of rich and rolling grass- 
lands, its numerous small lagoons and swamps 
and its herds of grazing stock, or, where the Chinese 
had settled, its wide expanses of wheat and mus- 
tard, growing luxuriantly upon the easily turned 
black mould. 
The outcome of the present struggle for the 
ownership of this land cannot be foretold, but 
whoever gets it will be in possession of a fine 
territory, only waiting to be developed, by the 
sinking of deep and permanent wells and a 
system of irrigation, into the richest pastures, or 
the most fertile arable land. From the point of 
view of the agricultural development of this land, 
it would undoubtedly be best for the Chinese to 
secure it; but one would hate to bid farewell to 
the picturesque Mongols, and to see these wild, 
though simple, horsemen driven from this their 
heritage by the materialistic, sordid race whose 
proper home is south of the Wall. 
We spent a very busy, but pleasant, fortnight 
at Tabool, after which we packed our things and 
began our return journey to Kalgan. Travelling 
in a southerly direction, we soon encountered 
Chinese settlements once more, and perforce bade 
farewell to the free grassy plains of Mongolia. 
From sixty li south of Tabool to the edge of the 
Plateau the land is all under cultivation. We 
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