Chapter XXXVIII: Last Days in China

Return to Teng-yueh--Packing the specimens--Results of the
Expedition--On the road to Bhamo--The chair coolies--Burma
_vs._ China--In civilisation again--Farewell to the Orient

315-322

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Our camp on the Snow Mountain at an altitude of 12,000 feet
_Frontispiece_

Yvette Borup Andrews with a pet Yün-nan squirrel 4
Edmund Heller 4
Roy Chapman Andrews and a goral 4

A Chinese hunter and a muntjac 28
Brigands killed in the Yen-ping Rebellion 28

The Ling-suik monastery 62
A priest of Ling-suik 62

A Chinese mother with her children 70
Chinese women of the coolie class with bound feet 70

Cormorant fishers on the lake at Yün-nan Fu 84
Our camp at Chou Chou on the way to Ta-li Fu 84

The Pagodas at Ta-li Fu 96
The dead of China 96

The residence of Rev. William J. Hanna at Ta-li Fu 102
The gate and main street of Ta-li Fu 102

One of the pagodas at Ta-li Fu 108

A Moso herder 112
A Moso woman 112

The Snow Mountain 116

A cheek gun used by one of our hunters 118
The first goral killed on the Snow Mountain 118

Hotenfa, one of oar Moso hunters, bringing in a goral 120
Another Moso hunter with a porcupine 120

A typical goral cliff on the Snow Mountain 132

A serow killed on the Snow Mountain 140
The head of a serow 140

The "white water" 152

A Liso hunter carrying a flying squirrel 162
The chief of our Lolo hunters 162

A Lolo village 174
Lolos seeing their photographs for the first time 174

Travelers in the Mekong valley 180
Two Tibetans 180

The gorge of the Yangtze River 184

A quiet curve of the Mekong River 190

The temple in which we camped at Ta-li Fu 200
A crested muntjac 200

The south gate at Yung-chang 210
A Chinese bride returning to her mother's home at New Year's 210

A Chinese patriarch 224
Young China 224

A Shan village 234
A Shan woman spinning 234

A Kachin woman in the market at Meng-ting 240
One of our Shan hunters with two yellow gibbons 240

Our camp on the Nam-ting River 246
The Shan village at Nam-ka 246

The head of a gibbon killed on the Nam-ting River 254
A civet 254

A Shan girl 260
A Shan boy 260

A suspension bridge 288
Mrs. Andrews feeding one of our bear cubs 288

A sambur killed at Wa-tien 302
The head of a muntjac 302

A mountain chair 312
The waterfall at Teng-yueh 312

Map I. The red line indicates the travels of the Expedition 318

Map II. Route of the Expedition in Yün-nan 320

CAMPS AND TRAILS IN CHINA