Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . THE ROCKY PASS AT KALGAN, OVER WHICH GENGHIS KHAN AND HIS MONGOLS ONCE SWEPT Across Mongolia by Motor-Car BY ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS Associate Curator of Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, New York AREERING madly ina motor-car behind aherd of antelope fleeinglike wind-blown ribbonsacross a desert whichisnt a desert, past cara-vans of camels led bypicturesque Mongol horsemen, the twen-tieth century suddenly and violentlyinterjected into the Middle Ages, shouldbe contrast and paradox enough for eventhe most blase sportsman. I
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . THE ROCKY PASS AT KALGAN, OVER WHICH GENGHIS KHAN AND HIS MONGOLS ONCE SWEPT Across Mongolia by Motor-Car BY ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS Associate Curator of Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, New York AREERING madly ina motor-car behind aherd of antelope fleeinglike wind-blown ribbonsacross a desert whichisnt a desert, past cara-vans of camels led bypicturesque Mongol horsemen, the twen-tieth century suddenly and violentlyinterjected into the Middle Ages, shouldbe contrast and paradox enough for eventhe most blase sportsman. I am a Copyright, 1919. by Harper &. naturalist who has wandered into manyof the far corners of the earth. I haveseen strange men and things, but whatI saw on the great Mongolian plateaufairly took my breath away and left medazed, utterly unable to adjust my men-tal perspective. When leaving Peking in late August,1918, to cross the Gobi Desert in Mon-golia, I knew that I was to go by motor-car. But somehow the very name Mon-golia and Gobi Desert brought Brothers. All Rights Reserved 2 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE such a vivid picture of the days ofKublai Khan and ancient Cathay thatmy clouded mind refused to admit thethought of automobiles. It was enoughthat I was going to the land of which Ihad so often dreamed. Not even on the railway when I wasbeing borne swiftly toward Kalgan andsaw lines of laden camels ploddingsilently along the paved road beside thetrain, or when we puffed slowly throughthe famous Nankau Pass and I saw thatwonder of all the world, the Great Wall,winding like an enormous serpent overridge after ridge o
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