A TWO MONTHS* TEIP INTO MONGOLIA. 
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On our arrival at Kalgan we found that the news of the mare’s 
victory had somehow reached that place in two days from the date of 
the meeting; the news having travelled some 50 miles a day. This 
will show what a sensation the race meeting had caused among the 
natives, who practically live on horseback. 
We arrived at Peking in good time for the races there, but we were 
a day out in our reckoning, reaching Peking on a Sunday, though we 
thought it was Monday. 
Of the ponies we bought in Mongolia and took to Hong Kong I 
will not say much; they were on the whole not successful in the 
February meeting. However, we had accomplished our object of 
showing the Celestials that perhaps a little fresh blood would be useful 
in their breed of ponies; having also explored a part of the world 
little known to Europeans and had fair shooting. 
Two months was a short space of time for the expedition; both on 
our journey to Dolon-Nor and on our return we were obliged to travel 
some 250 miles in ten consecutive days, 100 miles of it being on in¬ 
famous roads. 
Except for our one quarrel with an innkeeper, we were treated 
throughout our journey with much civility by the natives, whether or 
not this was due to the importance they attached to the fact of our 
having three carts I do not know, but we carried no fire-arms con¬ 
spicuously, except when on the grass country of Mongolia. 
