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 .. . MARVELLOUS FLORA AND FAUNA. 221 ably unsurpassed for its speed, is found. He will outstrip thefleetest horse, even when mortally wounded, or with a broken cannot be captured unless shot in the head, heart or herd usually consists of thirty or forty head. They have beenmet in nocks of hundreds and even thousands, but these lattercases are rare,
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 .. . MARVELLOUS FLORA AND FAUNA. 221 ably unsurpassed for its speed, is found. He will outstrip thefleetest horse, even when mortally wounded, or with a broken cannot be captured unless shot in the head, heart or herd usually consists of thirty or forty head. They have beenmet in nocks of hundreds and even thousands, but these lattercases are rare, The Mongolian lamas, or priests, of the In-shan uplands, likethose of Tibet, forbid the killing of antelope. The Ordos plateauhas an elevation of about three thousand five hundred feet. Its soilis sandy and unfit for cultivation. South of the Hoang-ho valleythe surface is relieved by a few great oases where the gray andyellow lizard are found. It is difficult to distinguish them fromthe surrounding country. RATAN A NATIVE OF CHINA. Beyond the Hoang-ho river the country is more barren anddesolate than the Ordos region. The tree common to this countryis the thorny sulkhir. It yields a grain from which the Mongolsmake a sort of flo
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