Across Mongolian Plains : A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest

by Andrews, Roy Chapman

• ISBN13: 9781589630420
• ISBN10: 1589630424
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	xix
Early conquests of the Mongols
Why their power was lost
Independence of Outer Mongolia
China's opportunity to obtain her former power in Mongolia
General Hsu Shu-tseng
Memorial to President of China
Cancellation of Outer Mongolia's autonomy
Entering the Land of Mystery	1	(12)
Arrival in Kalgan
The Hutukhtu's motor car
Start for the great platesu
Camel caravans
The pass
A motor car on the Mongolian plains
Start from Hei-mn-hou
Chinese cultivation
The Mongol not a farmer
The grass
Lands of Inner Mongolia
The first Mongol village
Construction of a yurt
Bird life
The telegraph line
Speed Marvels of the Gobi Desert	13	(14)
Wells in the desert
Panj-kiang
A lama monastery
A great herd of antelope
A wild chase
Long range shooting
Amazing speed
An exhibition of high-class running Difficulties in traveling
Description of the northern Mongols
Love of sport
Ude
Bustards
Great monastery at Turin
The rolling plains of Outer Mongolia
Urga during the World War
A Chapter of Accidents	27	(11)
Return trip
The ``agony box''
The first accident
My Czech and Cossack passengers
The ``agony box'' breaks a wheel
A dry camp
More motor trouble
Meeting with Langdon Warner
Our game of hide-and-seek in the Orient
An accident near Panj-kiang
We use mutton fat for oil
Arrival at Hei-ma-hou
A wet ride to Kalgan
Trouble at the gate
New Travel on an Old Trail	38	(12)
Winter in Peking
We leave for Mongolia
Inner Mongolia in spring
Race with a camel
Geese and cranes
Gophers
An electric light in the desert
Chinese motor companies
An antelope buck
A great herd
Brilliant atmosphere of Mongolia
Notes on antelope speed
Antelope Movie Stars	50	(12)
Moving pictures under difficulties
A lost opportunity
A zoological garden in the desert
Killing a wolf
Speed of a wolf
Antelope steak and parfum de chameau
A caravan
A wild wolf-hunt
Sulphuric acid
The Turin Plains
The Sacred City of the Living Buddha	62	(22)
A city of contrasts
The Chinese quarter like frontier America
A hamlet of modern Russia
An indescribable mixture of Mongolia, Russia and China in West Urga
Description of a Mongol woman
Urga like a pageant on the stage of a theater
The sacred mountain
The palace of the ``Living God''
Love for western inventions
A strange scene at the Hutukhtu's palace
A bed for the Living Buddha
Lamaism
The Lama City
Ceremony in the temple
Prayer wheels
Burial customs
Corpses eaten by dogs
The dogs of Mongolia
Cleanliness
Food
Morality
``H. C. L.'' in Urga
A horrible prison
Mr. F. A. Larsen
The Long Trail to Sain Noin Khan	84	(15)
Beginning work
Carts
Ponies
Our interpreter
Mongol tent
Native clothes best for work
Supplies
How to keep ``fit'' in the field
Accidents
Sain Noin Khan
The first day
A night in a yurt
Cranes
We trade horses
Horse stealing
No mammals
Birds
Breaking a cart horse
Mongol ponies
The Lure of the Plains	99	(17)
Trapping marmots
Skins valuable as furs
Native methods of hunting
A marmot dance
Habits
The first hunting-camp
Our Mongol neighbors
After antelope on horseback
The first buck
A pole-cat
The second day's hunt
The vastness of the plains
Development of a ``land sense''
Another antelope
Hunting on the Turin Plains	116	(17)
Mongol hospitality
Camping on the Turin Plains
An enormous herd of antelope
A wonderful ride
Three gazelle
A dry camp
My pony, Kublai Khan
Plains life about a, well
Antelope babies
A wonderful provision of nature
Habits
Species in Mongolia
The ``goitre''
Speed
Work in camp
Small mammals
An Adventure in the Lama City	133	(10)
An unexpected meeting with a river
Our new camp in Urga
``God's Brother's House''
Photographing in the Lama City
A critical moment
Help from Mr. Olufsen
The motion picture camera an instrument of magic
Floods in Urga
Duke Loobtseng Yangsen
The Duchess
Vegetables in Urga
Mongols at Home	143	(18)
The forests of Mongolia
A bad day's work
The Terelche River
Tserin Dorchy's family A wild
wood romance
Evening in the valley
Doctoring the natives
A clever lama
A popular magazine
Return of Tserin Dorchy
Independence
His hunt on the Sacred Mountain
Punishment
Hunting with the Mongols
Tsamba and ``buttered tea''
A splendid roebuck
The fortune of a naturalist
Eating the deer's viscera
The field meet of the Terelche Valley
Horse races
Wrestling
Nomads of the Forest	161	(14)
An id al camp
The first wapiti
A roebuck
Currants and berries
Catching fish
Enormous trout A rainy day in camp
A wapiti seen from camp
Mongolian weather
Flowers
Beautiful country
A musk deer
Habits and commercial value
A wild boar
Success and failure in hunting
We kill two wapiti
Return to Urga
Mr. and Mrs. MacCallie
Packing the collections
Across the plains to Peking
The Passing of Mongolian Mystery	175	(9)
Importance of Far East
Desert, plain, and water in Mongolia
The Gobi Desert
Agriculture
Pastoral products
Treatment of wool and camel hair
Marmots as a valuable asset
Urga a growing fur market
Chinese merchants
Labor
Gold mines
Transportation
Motor trucks
Passenger motor service
Forests
Aeroplanes
Wireless telegraph
The Great Ram of the Shansi Mountains	184	(21)
Brigands, Chinese soldiers and ``battles''
The Mongolian sheep
Harry Caldwell
Difference between North and South China
The ``dust age'' in China
Inns
Brigand scouts
The Tai Hai Lake Splendid shooting
The sheep mountains
An awe-inspiring gorge
An introduction to the argali
Caldwell's big ram
A herd of sheep
My first ram
A second sheep
The end of a perfect day
Mongolian ``Argali''	205	(14)
A long climb
Roebuck
An unsuspecting ram
My Mongol hunter
Donkeys instead of sheep
Two fine rams
The big one lost
A lecture on hunting
A night walk in the Canon
Commander Hutchins and Major Barker
Tom and I get n ram
The end of the sheep hunt
The Horse-Deer of Shansi	219	(11)
Wu Tai Hai
The ``American Legation''
Interior of a North
Shansi house
North China villages
The people
``Horse-deer''
The names ``wapiti'' and ``elk''
A great gorge
A rock temple
The hunting grounds furnish a surprise
A huge bull wapiti
Wapiti Roebuck and Goral	230	(11)
Our camp in a new village
Game at our door
Concentration of animal life
Chinese roebuck
A splendid hunt
Goral
Difficult climbing
``Hide and seek'' with a goral
The Second wapiti
A happy ending to a cold day
Wild Pigs-Animal and Human	241	(15)
Shansi Province famous for wild boar
Flesh delicious
When to hunt
Where to go
Inns and coal gas
Kao-chia-chaung
A long shot
Our camp at Tziloa
Native hunters
A young pig
A hard chase
Pheasants
Another pig-smith runs down a big sow
Chinese steal our game
A wounded boar
The Hunting Park of the Eastern Tombs	256	(15)
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
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