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Camps and Trails in China
A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

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Rebellion

A message from Mr. Caldwell--Refugees from Yen-ping--Situation in the city--Fighting on Monday morning--Wounded men at the hospital--We do Red Cross work--More fighting--A Chinese puzzle--The missionaries save the city--The narrow escape of a young Chinese--The mission cook--Return to Foochow

CHAPTER VI

Hunting the Great Invisible

Tiger lairs--Mr. Caldwell's method of hunting--His first tiger--Habits of tigers--Experiences with the Great Invisible--Killing a man eater--Chinese superstitions--Hunting in the lair

CHAPTER VII

The Blue Tiger

Arriving at Lung-tao--The blue tiger--Mr. Caldwell's first view of the beast--The lair in the Long Ravine--Bad luck with the tiger--A meeting in the dark--Ling-suik monastery--Life at the temple--Fukien Province as a collecting ground

CHAPTER VIII

The Women of China

Y.B.A.

Schools for girls--Position of women--The Confucian rules--Woman's life in the home--Foot binding--Early marriage--A Chinese wedding

CHAPTER IX

Voyaging to Yün-nan

Outfitting in Hongkong--Food--Guns--Cameras--En route to Tonking--The Island of Hainan--We engage a cook at Paik-hoi--Arrival in Haiphong--Loss of our Ammunition--Hanoi--The railroad to Yün-nan Fu--Yün-nan--The Chinese Foreign Office endorses our plans

CHAPTER X

On the Road to Ta-li fu

Our caravan--The Yün-nan pack saddle--Temple camps--Chinese mafus--Roads--Country--Ignorance of a Chinese scholar--New mammals--Village life--Opium growing--An opium scandal--Goitre--The Chinese "Mountain schooner"--Horses--Miss Morgan--Brigands--Our guard of soldiers

CHAPTER XI

Ta-li fu

Hsia-kuan--Summer temperature--Lake--Graves--Pagodas--Mr. H.G. Evans--Foreigners of Ta-li Fu--Chinese mandarins--Mammals at Ta-li--Caravan horses and mules--The cook becomes ill

CHAPTER XII

Li-Chiang, and the "Temple of the Flowers"

Traveling to Li-chiang--Our entrance into the city--The surprise of the foreigners--The temple--Excellent collecting--Small mammals--The Moso natives--Customs--The Snow Mountain--Baron Haendel-Mazzetti

CHAPTER XIII

Camping in the Clouds

Moso hunters--Primitive guns--Cross-bows and poisoned arrows--Dogs--A porcupine--New mammals--We find a new camp on the mountain

CHAPTER XIV

The First Goral

Killed near camp--A sacrifice to the God of the Hunt--Small mammals--The second goral

CHAPTER XV

More Gorals

Gorals almost invisible--Heller shoots a kid--Collecting material for a Museum group--A splendid hunt--Two gorals--A crested muntjac

CHAPTER XVI

The Snow Mountain Temple

The first illness in camp--Serow--Death of the leading dog--Rain--Two more serows--Lolos--Non-Chinese tribes of Yün-nan

CHAPTER XVII

Gorals and Serows

Relationship--Appearance of the serow--Habits--Gorals

CHAPTER XVIII

The "White Water"

Y.B.A.

Our new camp--A serow--We go to Li-chiang--A burial ceremony--Ancestor worship

CHAPTER XIX

Across the Yangtze Gorge

Traveling to the river--Inaccuracy of the Chinese--First view of the gorge--The Taku ferry--Caves

CHAPTER XX

Through Unmapped Country

Along the rim of the gorge--A beautiful camp at Habala--New mammals--Photographic work--Phete village--Stupid inhabitants--Strange natives--The "Windy Camp"--Hotenfa

CHAPTER XXI

Traveling Toward Tibet

A hard climb--Our highest camp--A Lolo village--Thanksgiving with the Lolos

CHAPTER XXII

Stalking Tibetans with a Camera

Y.B.A.

Caravans--Tibetans--Dress--Appearance--Photographing frightened natives--Reason for suspicion

CHAPTER XXIII

Westward to the Mekong River

Snow--Photographing natives--The Snow Mountain again--The Shih-ku ferry--Cranes--"Brahminy ducks"--A well-deserved beating--Chinese soldiers

CHAPTER XXIV

Down the Mekong Valley

Arrival at Wei-hsi--The Mekong River--Lutzu natives--Difficulties in the valley--An unexpected goral--Christmas--The salt wells--A snow covered pass--Duck shooting--Return to Ta-li Fu

CHAPTER XXV

Missionaries We Have Known

Our observations on work of missionaries in Fukien and Yün-nan Provinces--Mode of

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