Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . uct is inferior tothat raised in China. The Chinese merchants of Sining pay highprices for this rhubarb. No less than forty-three new species ofnew fauna have been discovered in these regions. A low herbage,growing to a height of about seven feet, comprises the flora ofSouthern Mongolia. This herbage produces a berry which is bothbitter and sweet and which is h
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . uct is inferior tothat raised in China. The Chinese merchants of Sining pay highprices for this rhubarb. No less than forty-three new species ofnew fauna have been discovered in these regions. A low herbage,growing to a height of about seven feet, comprises the flora ofSouthern Mongolia. This herbage produces a berry which is bothbitter and sweet and which is highly prized by the natives whogather it in the autumn and mix it with their barley-meal. Thisforms one of their chief foods. In the Chaidan (Tsaidam) valley the fauna chiefly met withare a species of antelope, the wolf, fox, hare. The soil of the Gobidesert is composed of reddish sands and grass is very rare. FromKalgan to Urga, a distance of over four hundred and twenty milesonly five trees have been found, and these stunted in growth. Thewind prevents the growth of any vegetation, except low plants are uprooted and scattered about. The fauna of theGobi is no more varied than its flora. The dzeren, an animal prob-.
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