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CHAP. v.] A CONTRAST. 107

the net result of all is true enjoyment. The

shadows have only served to show up the light,

and bring out more clearly the attractions of a

free, roaming life.

On the following day we entered hilly

country again, and at the end of the march

came upon country cultivated by Chinamen,

who here, as elsewhere along the borders of

Mongolia, are encroaching on the Mongols,

and gradually driving them out of the best

country back into the desert. The slack, easy-

going Mongol cannot stand before the pushing,

industrious Chinaman ; so back and back he

goes. It is the old story which is seen all

through nature—the weak and lazy succumbing

to the strong and vigorous. The observer's

sympathies are all with the Mongol, though,

and he feels regret at seeing the cold, hard-

natured Chinaman taking the place of the easy-

going, open-hearted Mongol.

On arrivalat Kwei-hwa-cheng on April 17,

I called on Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Clarke of the

China Inland Mission, to whom I had a letter

of introduction. I met with that warm recep-

tion which is characteristic of missionaries ; a

room was prepared for me, and the most real

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