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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

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 jangle--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.

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 Hai-yao--Muntjacs--A new serow--We move camp to Wa-tien--A fine sambur

Last Days in China

FACING PAGE

Yvette Borup Andrews with a pet Y?n-nan squirrel 4 Edmund Heller 4 Roy Chapman Andrews and a goral 4

A Chinese hunter and a muntjac 28 Brigands killed in the Yen-ping Rebellion 28

The Ling-suik monastery 62 A priest of Ling-suik 62

A Chinese mother with her children 70 Chinese women of the coolie class with bound feet 70

Cormorant fishers on the lake at Y?n-nan Fu 84 Our camp at Chou Chou on the way to Ta-li Fu 84

The Pagodas at Ta-li Fu 96 The dead of China 96

The residence of Rev. William J. Hanna at Ta-li Fu 102 The gate and main street of Ta-li Fu 102

One of the pagodas at Ta-li Fu 108

A Moso herder 112 A Moso woman 112

The Snow Mountain 116

A cheek gun used by one of our hunters 118 The first goral killed on the Snow Mountain 118

Hotenfa, one of oar Moso hunters, bringing in a goral 120 Another Moso hunter with a porcupine 120

A typical goral cliff on the Snow Mountain 132

A serow killed on the Snow Mountain 140 The head of a serow 140

The "white water" 152

A Liso hunter carrying a flying squirrel 162 The chief of our Lolo hunters 162

A Lolo village 174 Lolos seeing their photographs for the first time 174

Travelers in the Mekong valley 180 Two Tibetans 180

The gorge of the Yangtze River 184

A quiet curve of the Mekong River 190

The temple in which we camped at Ta-li Fu 200 A crested muntjac 200

The south gate at Yung-chang 210 A Chinese bride returning to her mother's home at New Year's 210

A Chinese patriarch 224 Young China 224

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