Chapter XIX: The Hunting Park of the Eastern Tombs

A visit to Duke Tsai Tse--A "personality"--The _Tung Ling_--The
road to the tombs--A country inn--The front view of the
_Tung Ling_--The tombs of the 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 256

Index 271

ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Nomad of the Mongolian Plains _Frontispiece_
Roy Chapman Andrews on "Kublai Khan" 8
Yvette Borup Andrews, Photographer of the Expedition 9
At the End of the Long Trail from Outer Mongolia 20
Women of Southern Mongolia 21
The Middle Ages and the Twentieth Century 34
A Mongolian Antelope Killed from Our Motor Car 35
Watering Camels at a Well in the Gobi Desert 35
The Water Carrier for a Caravan 46
A Thirty-five Pound Bustard 47
Young Mongolia 47
Mongol Horsemen on the Streets of Urga 60
The Prison at Urga 61
A Criminal in a Coffin with Hands Manacled 61
The Great Temple at Urga 72
A Prayer Wheel and a Mongol Lama 72
Lamas Calling the Gods at a Temple in Urga 73
Mongol Praying at a Shrine in Urga 73
Mongol Women Beside a _Yurt_ 82
The Headdress of a Mongol Married Woman 82
The Framework of a _Yurt_ 83
Mongol Women and a Lama 83
The Traffic Policeman on Urga's "Broadway" 98
A Mongol Lama 98
The Grasslands of Outer Mongolia 99
Mongol Herdsmen Carrying Lassos 116
A Lone Camp on the Desert 117
Tibetan Yaks 184
Our Caravan Crossing the Terelche River 135
Our Base Camp at the Edge of the Forest 148
The Mongol Village of the Terelche Valley 149
Wrestlers at Terelche Valley Field Meet 164
Women Spectators at the Field Meet 165
Cave Dwellings in North Shansi Province 184
An Asiatic Wapiti 185
Harry R. Caldwell and a Mongolian Bighorn 185
Where the Bighorn Sheep Are Found 216
A Mongolian Roebuck 217
The Head of the Record Ram 224
Map of Mongolia and China, Showing Route of Second
Asiatic Expedition in Broken Lines 225