range Cure of a
Cow--Depth of the Wells of the Ortous--Manner of Watering
the Animals--Encampment at the Hundred Wells--Meeting with
the King of the Alechan--Annual Embassies of the Tartar
Sovereigns to Peking--Grand Ceremony in the Temple of the
Ancestors--The Emperor gives Counterfeit Money to the
Mongol Kings--Inspection of our Geographical Map--The
Devils Cistern--Purification of the Water--A Lame
Dog--Curious Aspect of the Mountains--Passage of the
Yellow River
CHAPTER XI.
Sketch of the Tartar Nations 237
CHAPTER XII.
Hotel of Justice and Mercy--Province of 262
Kan-Sou--Agriculture--Great Works for the Irrigation of
the Fields--Manner of Living in Inns--Great Confusion in a
Town caused by our Camels--Chinese Lifeguard--Mandarin
Inspector of the Public Works--Ning-Hia--Historical and
Topographical Details--Inn of the Five Felicities--Contest
with a Mandarin, Tchong-Wei--Immense Mountains of
Sand--Road to Ili--Unfavourable aspect of
Kao-Tan-Dze--Glance at the Great Wall--Inquiry after the
Passports--Tartars travelling in China--Dreadful
Hurricane--Origin and Manners of the Inhabitants of
Kan-Sou--The Dchiahours--Interview with a Living
Buddha--Hotel of the Temperate Climates--Family of
Samdadchiemba--Mountain of Ping-Keou--Fight between an
Innkeeper and his
Wife--Water-mills--Knitting--Si-Ning-Fou--House of
Rest--Arrival at Tang-Keou-Eul

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
Frontispiece, Chinese and Tartar Costumes
Title-page, Portraits of MM. Gabet and Huc
View of the City of Peking 9
The Travellers setting out on their Journey 15
Kang of a Tartar-Chinese Inn 17
The Missionaries in their Lamanesque Costumes 19
Portrait of Samdadchiemba 20
Mountain of Sain-Oula 21
First Encampment 23
Buddhist Monuments 25
Military Mandarin 28
Chinese Idol 32
View of the City of Tolon-Noor 33
Bell and Idol Foundry 36
The Queen of Mourguevan 40
The Emperor Tao