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The Object of the Expedition
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The importance of the scientific exploration of Central Asia--The region which the Asiatic Zo?logical Expedition investigated--Personnel of the Expedition--Equipment--Applicants for positions upon the Expedition
China in Turmoil
Up the Min River
Y. B. A.
A Bat Cave in the Big Ravine
The Temple in the Big Ravine--Hunting serow--A bat apartment house
The Yen-ping 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
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
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
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
Voyaging to Y?n-nan
On the Road to Ta-li Fu
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
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
Camping in the Clouds
Moso hunters--Primitive guns--Crossbows and poisoned arrows--Dogs--porcupine--New mammals--We find a new camp on the mountain
The First Goral
Killed near camp--A sacrifice to the God of the Hunt--Small mammals--The second goral
More Gorals
Gorals almost invisible--Heller shoots a kid--Collecting material for a Museum group--A splendid hunt--Two gorals--A crested muntjac
The Snow Mountain Temple
The first illness in camp--Serow--Death of the leading dog--Rain--Two more serows--Lolos--Non-Chinese tribes of Y?n-nan
Gorals and Serows
Relationship--Appearance of the serow--Habits--Gorals
The "White Water"
Y. B. A.
Our new camp--serow--We go to Li-chiang--A burial ceremony--Ancestor worship
Across the Yangtze Gorge
Traveling to the river--Inaccuracy of the Chinese--First view of the gorge--The Taku ferry--Cares
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
Traveling Toward Tibet
A hard climb--Our highest camp--A Lolo village--Thanksgiving with the Lolos
Stalking Tibetans with a Camera
Y. B. A.
Caravans--Tibetans--Dress--Appearance--Photographing frightened natives--Reason for suspicion
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
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
Missionaries We Have Known
Our observations on work of missionaries in Fukien and Y?n-nan Provinces--Mode of living--Servants--Voluntary exile--Medical missionaries--A missionary's experience with the brigands at Yuchi
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