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

CHAPTER XII

NOMADS OF THE FOREST

An ideal 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

CHAPTER XIII

THE PASSING OF MONGOLIAN MYSTERY

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

CHAPTER XIV

THE GREAT RAM OF THE SHANSI MOUNTAINS

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

CHAPTER XV

MONGOLIAN "ARGALI"

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 canyon--Commander Hutchins and Major
Barker--Tom and I get a ram--The end of the sheep hunt

CHAPTER XVI

THE HORSE-DEER OF SHANSI

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

CHAPTER XVII

WAPITI, ROEBUCK AND GORAL

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

CHAPTER XVIII

WILD PIGS--ANIMAL AND HUMAN

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