Across Mongolian Plains

Show Excerpt Empress Dowager and Ch'ien Lung--The "hinterland"--An area of desolation--Our camp in the forest--Reeves's pheasant--The most beautiful Chinese deer--"Blood horns" as medicine--Goral--Animals and birds of the Tung Ling--A new method of catching trout--A forest fire--Native stupidity--Wanton destruction--China's great opportunity INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS A Nomad of the Mongolian Plains (Frontispiece) Roy Chapman Andrews on "Kublai Khan" Yvette Borup Andrews, Photographer of the Expedition At the End of the Long Trail from Outer Mongolia Women of Southern Mongolia The Middle Ages and the Twentieth Century A Mongolian Antelope Killed from Our Motor Car Watering Camels at a Well in the Gobi Desert The Water Carrier for a Caravan A Thirty-five Pound Bustard Young Mongolia Mongol Horsemen on the Streets of Urga The Prison at Urga A Criminal in a Coffin with Hands Manacled The Great Temple at U