e speed

CHAPTER V

ANTELOPE MOVIE STARS

Moving pictures under difficulties--A lost opportunity--A zoological
garden in the desert--Killing a wolf--Speed of a wolf--Antelope steak
and _parfum de chameau_--A caravan--A wild wolf-hunt--Sulphuric
acid--The Turin Plains

CHAPTER VI

THE SACRED CITY OF THE LIVING BUDDHA

A city of contrasts--The Chinese quarter like frontier America--A
hamlet of modern Russia--An indescribable mixture of Mongolia, Russia
and China in West Urga--Description of a Mongol woman--Urga like a
pageant on the stage of a theater--The sacred mountain--The palace of
the "Living God"--Love for western inventions--A strange scene at the
Hutukhtu's palace--A bed for the Living Buddha--Lamaism--The Lama
City--Ceremony in the temple--Prayer wheels--Burial customs--Corpses
eaten by dogs--The dogs of
Mongolia--Cleanliness--Food--Morality--"H. C. L." in Urga--A horrible
prison--Mr. F. A. Larsen

CHAPTER VII

THE LONG TRAIL TO SAIN NOIN KHAN

Beginning work--Carts--Ponies--Our interpreter--Mongol tent--Native
clothes best for work--Supplies--How to keep "fit" in the
field--Accidents--Sain Noin Khan--The first day--A night in a
_yurt_--Cranes--We trade horses--Horse stealing--No
mammals--Birds--Breaking a cart horse--Mongol ponies

CHAPTER VIII

THE LURE OF THE PLAINS

Trapping marmots--Skins valuable as furs--Native methods of hunting--A
marmot dance--Habits--The first hunting-camp--Our Mongol
neighbors--After antelope on horseback--The first buck--A pole-cat--The
second day's hunt--The vastness of the plains--Development of a "land
sense"--Another antelope

CHAPTER IX

HUNTING ON THE TURIN PLAINS

Mongol hospitality--Camping on the Turin Plains--An enormous herd of
antelope--A wonderful ride--Three gazelle--A dry camp--My pony, Kublai
Khan--Plains life about a well--Antelope babies--A wonderful provision
of nature--Habits--Species in Mongolia--The "goitre"--Speed--Work in
camp--Small mammals

CHAPTER X

AN ADVENTURE IN THE LAMA CITY

An unexpected meeting with a river--Our new camp in Urga--"God's
Brother's House"--Photographing in the Lama City--A critical
moment--Help from Mr. Olufsen--The motion picture camera an instrument
of magic--Floods in Urga--Duke Loobtseng Yangsen--The
Duchess--Vegetables in Urga

CHAPTER XI

MONGOLS AT HOME

The forests of Mongolia--A bad day's work--The Terelche River--Tserin
Dorchy's family--A wild-wood romance--Evening in the valley--Doctoring