. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL IN CHINA » The camels that comedown from Mongolia andwind their unhurried wayfrom Chien Men Gate to theGate of the Heavenly Peaceform one of the most pic-turesque of the manypicturesque sights in fasci-nating old Peking. Theright-hand picture shows theauthor utilizing the mostrapid means of transit in themountains north of Peking. A TRIP INTO RURAL CHINA 119 capital. At the Pass this morning I saw three such cam
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL IN CHINA » The camels that comedown from Mongolia andwind their unhurried wayfrom Chien Men Gate to theGate of the Heavenly Peaceform one of the most pic-turesque of the manypicturesque sights in fasci-nating old Peking. Theright-hand picture shows theauthor utilizing the mostrapid means of transit in themountains north of Peking. A TRIP INTO RURAL CHINA 119 capital. At the Pass this morning I saw three such cameltrains coming down from Mongolia and the Desert of Gobi:long, slow-moving, romantic caravans that made me feel asif I had become a character in the Arabian Nights or a con-temporary of Kublai-Khan. One of the trains was the longestI have yet seen — twenty-five or thirty camels, I should say,treading Indian-file with their usual unostentatious stateliness,a wooden pin through each camels nostrils from which a cordbound him to the camel next ahead, a few strangely dresseddrivers guiding the odd Oriental procession. Nor were the camels the only strange travellers encounteredby my party, a young Frenchman, the German, and myself,as we rode our little donkeys mile after mile of rocky way fromNankou village through the Pass. To begin with, we wereourselves funny-looking enough, for my donkey was so smallthat he could almost walk under the belly of my saddle-horse athome, and my feet almost touched the grou
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