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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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of stones, and contained a tablet inside a niche. I was looking
at this, when I was driven off with ignominy by some ravens
which had their nest in it. They screeched and hovered about
within a few inches of my eyes in such an unpleasant way
that I, having no stick, beat a hasty retreat to camp.
On May 7 we emerged from the undulating hilly country,
and, after crossing a small stream called the Moli-ho, came
on to an extensive plain bounded on the north, at a distance
of five or six miles, by a barren, rugged range of hills, at the
foot of which could be seen some Mongol yurts, and a con-
spicuous white temple; while to the south, at a distance of
about twenty miles, were the Sheitung-ula Mountains (called
by the Chinese, the Liang-lang-shan, or Eurh-lang-shan), which
lie along the north bank of the Yellow river, and were
explored in 1873 by Prjevalsky. My guide had a tradition
about these mountains that, five or six hundred years ago, a
Chinese force of five thousand men was besieged on a hill
by a Mongol force. They had been enticed into these deserts
by the Mongols, who knew where all the water was to be
found, while the Chinese, being unable to procure any,
suffered terribly, and only a thousand survived; ever since
the Chinese emperor has paid money to the Mongol prince
to keep quiet.
A caravan from Guchen passed us on the 8th. There
were about a hundred and fifty camels, mostly unladen, but
several carried boxes of silver. This was the only caravan we
met coming from the west; it had left Guchen sixty days
previously.
The following day we passed close by a spur from the
northern range of hills, which appeared to be of volcanic
origin. The range presented a most fantastic appearance,
rising in sharp rugged peaks. It consists of a series of sharp
parallel ridges with intervening strips of plain, perhaps a
quarter of a mile wide. In Manchuria we had also found
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