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قراءة كتاب Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China
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Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China
living--Servants--Voluntary exile--Medical missionaries--A missionary's experience with the brigands at Yuchi
Chinese New Year at Yung-chang
Y.B.A.
Traveling to Yung-chang--New Year's customs--Inhabitants of the city--Foot-binding--Caves--Water buffaloes--Chinese cow-caravans--Yung-chang mentioned by Marco Polo
Traveling Toward the Tropics
Shih-tien plain--Curious inhabitants of the city--A tropical valley at Ma-po-lo--"A little more far"--A splendid camp--Many new mammals--Preparing specimens--Sambur--Trapping
Meng-ting: a Village: of Many Tongues
The first Shan village--Priscilla and John Alden--Meng-ting--The Shan mandarin--Young priests--The market--Photographing under difficulties--Suppression of opium growing
Camping on the Nam-ting River
A beautiful camp--The "Dying Rabbit"--Sambur hunting--Jungle fowl--Civets--Pole cats and other animals
Monkey Hunting
Strange calls in the jungle--Our first gibbons--Relationship and habits--Langurs and baboons--A night in the jungle
The Shans of the Burma Border
An unfriendly chief--Honest natives--Houses at Nam-ka--Tattooing--Shan tribe--Dress
Prisoners of War in Burma
Y.B.A.
The mythical Ma-li-ling--Across the frontier into Burma--The mafus rebel--Ma-li-pa--Captain Clive--Guarding the border--Life at Ma-li-pa
Hunting Peacocks on the Salween River
The valley at Changlung--The ferry--Peacocks--The stalker stalked--Habits of peafowls
The Gibbons of Ho-mu-shu
Climbing out of the Salween Valley--A Shan village--Ho-mu-shu--Camping on a mountain pass--Gibbons--An exciting hunt and a narrow escape--Habits of the "hoolock"
Teng-yueh: a Link with Civilization
Tai-ping-pu--Flying squirrels--Lisos--A bat cave--Mail--Teng-yueh--Mr. Ralph Grierson--Tibetan bear cubs
A Big Game Paradise
Gorals at Hui-yao--Deer--Splendid hunts
Serow and Sambur
Monkeys at Hui-yao--Muntjacs--A new serow--We move camp to Wa-tien--A fine sambur
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 civilization again--Farewell to the Orient
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Our camp on the Snow Mountain at an altitude of 12,000 feet.
Yvette Borup Andrews with a pet Yün-nan squirrel
Edmund Heller
Roy Chapman Andrews and a goral
A Chinese hunter and a muntjac
Brigands killed in the Yen-ping Rebellion
The Ling-suik monastery
A priest of Ling-suik
A Chinese mother with her children
Chinese women of the coolie class with bound feet
Cormorant fishers on the lake at Yün-nan Fu
Our camp at Chou Chou on the way to Ta-li Fu
The Pagodas at Ta-li Fu
The dead of China
The residence of Rev. William J. Hanna at Ta-li-Fu
The gate and main street of Ta-li Fu
One of the pagodas at Ta-li Fu
A Moso herder
A Moso woman
The Snow Mountain
A cheek gun used by one of our hunters
The first goral killed on the Snow Mountain
Hotenfa, one of our Moso hunters, bringing in a goral
Another Moso hunter with a porcupine
A typical goral cliff on the Snow Mountain
A serow killed on the Snow Mountain
The head of a serow
The "white water"
A Liso hunter carrying a flying squirrel
The chief of our Lolo hunters
A Lolo village
Lolos seeing their photographs for the first time
Travelers in the Mekong valley
Two Tibetans
The gorge of the Yangtze River
A quiet curve of the Mekong River
The temple in which we camped at Ta-li Fu
A crested muntjac
The south gate at Yung-chang
A Chinese bride returning to her mother's home at New Year's
A Chinese patriarch
Young China
A Shan village
A Shan woman spinning
A Kachin woman in the market at Meng-ting
One of our Shan hunters with two yellow gibbons
Our camp on the Nam-ting River
The Shan village at Nam-ka
The head of a gibbon killed on the Nam-ting River
A civet
A Shan girl
A Shan boy
A suspension bridge
Mrs. Andrews feeding one of our bear cubs
A sambur killed at Wa-tien
The head of a muntjac
A mountain chair
The waterfall at Teng-Yueh
MAP I. The red line indicates the travels of the Expedition
MAP II. Route of the Expedition in Yün-nan
CAMPS AND TRAILS IN CHINA
CHAPTER I
THE OBJECT OF THE EXPEDITION
The earliest remains of primitive man probably will be found somewhere in the vast plateau of Central Asia, north of the Himalaya Mountains. From this region came the successive invasions that poured into Europe from the east, to India from the north, and to China from the west; the migration route to North America led over the Bering Strait and spread fanwise south and southeast to the farthest extremity of South America. The Central Asian plateau at the beginning of the Pleistocene was probably less arid than it is today and there is reason to