Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . re is a flaw inthe rope, and it breaks at a critical moment, the junkis swept away and dashed to pieces on the sharp travellers were unusually fortunate, and camethrough all the rapids without losing a rope, and tied upat Wanhsien to give the trackers a holiday for the ChineseNew Year. Wanhsien is a busy town. A British cruiser was stationedthere. Not far from the city there are some interestingdeposits of the bones of antidiluvian animals. These werebeing dug up by the Chinese and sold for medicine on thestreets of Wanhsien. On hi
Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . re is a flaw inthe rope, and it breaks at a critical moment, the junkis swept away and dashed to pieces on the sharp travellers were unusually fortunate, and camethrough all the rapids without losing a rope, and tied upat Wanhsien to give the trackers a holiday for the ChineseNew Year. Wanhsien is a busy town. A British cruiser was stationedthere. Not far from the city there are some interestingdeposits of the bones of antidiluvian animals. These werebeing dug up by the Chinese and sold for medicine on thestreets of Wanhsien. On his way down Brooke spent two days trying to getsome of these bones as specimens, but could not succeedin getting any complete parts, such as a leg or a skull or alarge section of the vertebrae. The teeth, parts of the jawand sections of the legs which he saw went to prove that theanimal must have been very large, but he could not makeout what it could have been. The Chinese were digging allabout the place, and had already carried away most of the 56. Hankow to Chentu. section to various parts of China, for these mysterious bonescommanded a high price as medicine. Such things as bears feet and heads for rheumatism andstiff joints, deers horns and sinews for the weakness in men,are among the chief remedies of the Chinese quack, and youwill hear him crying out on the streets, as he offers thesemedicines for sale, that there is nothing like them for a weakor sore back, and all the other ailments that the Chinese sofrequently suffer from. Chungking is situated at the junction of two rivers—theKialing, which flows from the north, and here joins its waterwith that of the Yangtze, that great river which finds itssource on the roof of the world, nearly 2,000 miles north-west of here. This city, therefore, is wedge-shaped, and built on theside of a hill which at its highest point is quite 500 feet; andthe widest part between the two rivers is not more than twomiles, so that the houses a
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