Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier . d during the winter by the dailyoverflowing of the permanent stream and thenightly freezing of the surface water. Now, theweather becoming daily more mild, this ice hadweakened considerably, so that the wheels ofour heavily laden carts went through, whilethe teams slipped and floundered about in theirdesperate struggles to disengage the unwieldyvehicles. No sooner was one cart free than thenext would fall into the same difficulty. Bydint of much exertion, the breaking of ice, and theconcentration of horse power upon the cart indifficulties, ou
Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier . d during the winter by the dailyoverflowing of the permanent stream and thenightly freezing of the surface water. Now, theweather becoming daily more mild, this ice hadweakened considerably, so that the wheels ofour heavily laden carts went through, whilethe teams slipped and floundered about in theirdesperate struggles to disengage the unwieldyvehicles. No sooner was one cart free than thenext would fall into the same difficulty. Bydint of much exertion, the breaking of ice, and theconcentration of horse power upon the cart indifficulties, our carters finally succeeded in gettingthem across the half-mile or so of ice on to dryground. So long did this take, however, that wecould not accomplish more than fifteen milesthe first day, and were obliged to put up at asmall village named Hsin-yin-tzu, where we ob-tained comfortable quarters. The following day we continued up the valley,now running in an easterly direction. We werehampered by more ice in a very rotten condition. 88 PLATE VI!.. C_K()\i, Mil-: Yellow Kixek. f A2:i;»SS^
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