. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. and hired newones to take us through the mountains to railhead at FengChen, distant four long marches. The first stage is a marchof 90 li to the mountain village of Shihjen Wan, the trailcontinuing east across the plain for six or seven hours andthen running up a shallow valley for the rest of the of the higher mountain slopes were snow-clad, thoughthe season of the year was only late September. On thefollowing day another long march of 90 li up a valley andover a low
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. and hired newones to take us through the mountains to railhead at FengChen, distant four long marches. The first stage is a marchof 90 li to the mountain village of Shihjen Wan, the trailcontinuing east across the plain for six or seven hours andthen running up a shallow valley for the rest of the of the higher mountain slopes were snow-clad, thoughthe season of the year was only late September. On thefollowing day another long march of 90 li up a valley andover a low pass brought us to the hamlet of Wuli Pa, lyingon a sort of plateau of moorland country, the beginning ofthe grass lands of Eastern Inner Mongolia. It snowedheavily most of the day and we arrived cold, wet, and tiredto find the roughest of accommodation in a large cart third stage is still longer, called no li, to the villageof Tiencheng Tsun, but the trail lying partly across grasscountry one can travel fast. The road descends throughflat open valleys to a lake, where good wild-fowl shooting PLATE XLVII. PONY FAIR ON THE CHINESE-MONGOLIAN BORDER
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