Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . tting some very interesting fossils,which are quite plentiful in these valleys. The country isvery mountainous, with out-crops of limestone, and in someplaces granite, quartz and mica schist are to be found ; butas I am not a geologist I will not attempt to give a full de-scription of the geological structure of this country, but Ifeel sure it will prove a very interesting field for the scientist. I started back to the inn in Yinhsiuwan on horseback,but on the second day my horse broke down and I had tofinish my journey on foot, and arrived
Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . tting some very interesting fossils,which are quite plentiful in these valleys. The country isvery mountainous, with out-crops of limestone, and in someplaces granite, quartz and mica schist are to be found ; butas I am not a geologist I will not attempt to give a full de-scription of the geological structure of this country, but Ifeel sure it will prove a very interesting field for the scientist. I started back to the inn in Yinhsiuwan on horseback,but on the second day my horse broke down and I had tofinish my journey on foot, and arrived very much of a laid up for some days, and watched the rafts being built Hunting the Serow which were to shoot the rapids for a distance of thirty miles downto Kwanhsien. The square sticks of timber are fastenedtogether into long narrow rafts, the logs being laid over-lapping each other, and then fastened together with ropesof twisted bamboo, which are lashed up tight and then drivenfirm with wedges. The result is a raft that is firm and yet. THE GORAL SHOT BY THE AUTHOR Al ,000 YARl pliable. One long oar is mounted on the bow and anotheron the stern. When all is ready six men are lashed to eachoar, the ropes are cut, and off goes the raft dashing throughthe rapids, water breaking over the heads of the men, whoare straining at the oars to avoid the rocks that croj) upeverywhere. I saw one raft strike a rock, and not only was sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppe the raft broken apart, but the very logs werts snapped intopieces hke so many dry twigs, and only three out of the twelvemen on the raft got ashore ; the rest were drowned. Themen who do this work have wonderful nerve, but a largenumber of them annually find a watery grave. While Meares was waiting at Yinhsiuwan some huntersbrought in another young goral alive, and he sent it on toBrooke at Chentu ; but, unfortunately, it also died, theheat of the plain seeming to be too much for it. Anotherhunter brought in two
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