SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 
spent the first night at a wayside inn called 
Ma-ni-t’u. 
The following night we put up at a large village 
called Miao-t’an, after an uneventful journey. 
Next day we passed the ruins of an ancient 
town called Hsin-hua-ch’éng. Here in a temple 
yard we saw two large automobiles and a wagon. 
One of the former was painted a bright yellow and 
had a figure of the Imperial Dragon on its sides. 
The others were painted grey. On inquiry we 
were told that they had been placed there in 
October, 1911, in readiness to carry the Manchu 
Imperial Family to Urga, in case the Revolu- 
tionaries ever succeeded in driving the Manchus 
from Peking. These fine vehicles now lay un- 
sheltered and uncared for, rapidly falling into 
decay, sad emblems of the fallen Manchu dynasty. 
August 21 found us once more in Kalgan, and 
two days later we reached Tientsin and the end 
of another year’s travel, sport and adventure on 
the Sino-Mongolian Frontier. 
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