. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. L Scenes at a Lama festival. Eastern Inner Mongolia LI The Circumambulation by the coming Buddha at amonastery in Eastern Inner Mongolia . LI I Behind the scenes at a Lama Devil Dance, Eastern InnerMongolia LIII Religious Dance at a Lama monastery. Eastern Inner Mongolia LIV Mongol women in gala dress ....LV Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the Paddock Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the ParadeLVI Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the Start, Native pony racing i
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. L Scenes at a Lama festival. Eastern Inner Mongolia LI The Circumambulation by the coming Buddha at amonastery in Eastern Inner Mongolia . LI I Behind the scenes at a Lama Devil Dance, Eastern InnerMongolia LIII Religious Dance at a Lama monastery. Eastern Inner Mongolia LIV Mongol women in gala dress ....LV Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the Paddock Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the ParadeLVI Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the Start, Native pony racing in Inner Mongolia: the WinnerLVI I Chinese troops on active service in Inner Mongolia LVI 11 On a main road in the grass country of the Chinese-Mongolian border 163 170 171 180181186187 192 193194 195 198199 202 203 206 207210 211 214 215 LIST OF MAPS Outline map of the Far East, showing portions of China covered by the journeys . . TO face page i Sketch-map showing railway projects in China „ 208 Map of Kansu, showing the authors route| ^ ^ ^ ^^^ pocket Map of Shensi, showing the authors route]. CHAPTER I FROM RAILHEAD IN HONAN TO HSIAN FU,THE CAPITAL OF SHENSI Approaches to the North West—By train to railhead at Kuanyintang—Along the Yellow River to Tungkuan—Road and railway construction inChina—Up the Wei valley plain past Huayin, Huachou, Weinan, andLintung to Hsian—Antiquities—Recent events in Shensi. There are a certain limited number of trails leading intoShensi and Kansu from the coast, namely, from Honan viathe Tungkuan passage, from Hankow up the Han river,from Taiyuan in Shansi via Suite to Ninghsia, and fromKueihuacheng via the Yellow River and the Ordos toNorthern Kansu. We entered the North West by the firstnamed route and eventually returned by the last Tungkuan trail, which nowadays carries most of thetraffic, follows the valleys of the Yellow and Wei riversthrough a natural gap in the mountains leading into theheart of the North
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