Show EXPLORER DESCRIBES c HIGHLANDS HG LANS Expedition Was Ambushed and Had Hada Hadn a n Warm Fight With Natives ST. ST PETERSBURG Jan an 17 P. P. P R. R R Kozloff Kozlof the explorer r of whore who're centy reached made a detailed report of his expedIt expedition n on arriving at at that city From local papers the following fol lowing points were taken Capt Kozloff who has had oe be been n fl a men mem member mem ber of an earlier earle exploring expedition to accompanied by Mr Lady- Lady gum gln a linguist Officer Kaznakoff an and sixteen soldiers entered the te desert of Gobi on the e eastern tepi slope of ot the Altai Alai mountains In itt July uly 1899 The party traversed the desert in three columns It I was found that the desert was not nota i ia a plain but was intersected by a chain of hills his running from from- northwest to southeast The party assembled re-assembled at and proceeded to passIng passing pass- pass I ing Ing ng northward of the Koko Nor The explorers quickly penetrated t the tite e high lands reaching a height of ot feet In a few days The climate climate cli cli- cl- cl mate was S sev severe re but both vegetable and animal life were found in plenty Large herds of yaks and wild wId asses ases and numerous wild wid bears were wee met Three skins equal in size to skins of polar bears were brought back The he population of the valleys are They live lve as a nomads following following fol- fol lowing their herds of cattle catte They are warlike and are armed with guns sabers and pikes pike gns Another tribe the keep herds and raise wheat and barley on the slopes Their houses house are two or three stories in height and are built of clay buIt cay and stones At a distance they look like ike small smal towers The feared reprisals for the murder of the Frenchman Frenchman French French- man Dutrel de Jn Jr JI 1896 1890 which they hey explained was d due e eHi to td his entering a temple Capt Kozloff Kozlof reported that a strong anti British ant feeling prevailed among among the he They gave the expedition expedition tion no trouble until having crossed the Hoang Ho and the the explorers ers approached ed the Me Kong river when the natives declared the visitors must return Two hundred men fired fred from rom ambush as the te Russians were crossing crosIng the Dsa Chu but the latter later by the te use usa JQ pf pt their Tides rifles drove theta them Ulem oi off on after two hours' hours fighting Twenty na tea I- I tives tVS were killed and seventeen others wounded Soon afterward after an embassy came from Chon do to beg Capt Kozlof Kozloff Koz Koz- loff lof not to go to that city the second religious capital of the country The request heeded request was Capt Kozloff re remaIning remaining re- re where he was WS until a portion porton of ok his company had explored eastward to the Three months were yere spent malting making collections of rare and hitherto un unknown animals The return Journey was u-as be heun un in the middle of March The t s sent guides and d gifts foX for the tho Czar te out of cr flu e to Capt Capt Kozloff for remaining away from that place On theIr ther way the explorers were were attacked by bv but Russian rifles were victorious The second attack 1 M w u made from an ambush Cant Capt Kozloff had however howe expected It and sent ent part of his men to fall fal upon the enemy's rear i Through the influence of a Lama Lma of a 0 convent th the were pel not to further the Russians The rhe r n turn r to Zaid molest n was wa thereafter without dager Kia- Kia Siberia was as reached by bv Wv Mongolia C in November wy waY 1901 of The he party ty party marched 1000 TI surveys were yore T Topographical To- To ma made e as astronomical astronomical as- as observations were ere ta In i forty places and meteorological taen ohse were were conducted at 5 fourteen months The S for r collections transport o t the e gathered by the required the expedition n u use e of ff fifty camels |