. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 662 EXPLORATIONS IN MONGOLIA AND TIBET. westerly winds, are coiitiuually filling up. We saw but few Mongols; they live remote from the route, or when they have remained in their former haunts, now settled by Chinese, have adopted Chinese modes of dress and of living, and too frequently their vices. Some antelope, a few hares, and vast flocks of sand grouse {SyrrJiaptes PallasU) were occasionally seen; but what a sportsman's paradise these p
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 662 EXPLORATIONS IN MONGOLIA AND TIBET. westerly winds, are coiitiuually filling up. We saw but few Mongols; they live remote from the route, or when they have remained in their former haunts, now settled by Chinese, have adopted Chinese modes of dress and of living, and too frequently their vices. Some antelope, a few hares, and vast flocks of sand grouse {SyrrJiaptes PallasU) were occasionally seen; but what a sportsman's paradise these plains must have been in the days of K'ang-hsi, when Father Gerbillon came here with him to hawk and shoot, and the great Em- peror never failed to return to camj) with scores and scores of hares and other game killed by his arrows! Father Hue has so fully and graphically described the Ordos country that I will not venture to try and improve on what he has said, especially as one forms a more agreeable opinion of the country from his narrative than one would from what I might say of it. It has, I fear, changed for the worse since his Fig. 2.—Baron gomba or Hsi Knng miao Lamaist Tcmi>k" in tho Ordos country. The only place of any importance we saw was the palace of one of the Orat Mongol princes, the Hsi Kung or " Duke of the West," and near it a small but very handsomely built lamasery, the temple itself of pure Tibetan style. It is called by the Mongols, Baron gomba, and by the Chinese, Hsi Kung miao. On the 9tli«©f January, I reached the large Chinese Christian com- munity (some three hundred families residing in four villages) of San-tao ho-tzu, created and managed by the Belgi^ Catholic foreign mis-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Boar
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