Camps And Trails In China A Narrative Of Exploration Adventure

Chapter 36

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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

FACING PAGE

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