| Show russess Ru great explorer col coi the 0 greatest greatest rea test of russian travelers lias has returned from ali jott III V serf series of explorations in iha vast region lying between siberia and china these journeys covilli ov illi A distance of about miles bave lin ve raide made large additions to our bur knowl knowledge edgo of mongolia SIon a golia thabet and En eastern enstein steil I 1 or chinese celane se turkestan Turk Tur kest estan an 1 laid and has ua pioneered tile way in griat great districts that aliat had hitherto been unexplored ills his latest travel have occupied nearly t two 1 v 0 years ceiri and he re returns turnia with inith large c 0 and a unreal great deal of novel and C interesting information fias haewon arcin lit in this jour ricy his li n besl bos I 1 laurels as aa an it explorer explore ci by lis disca Tery of bf the of the two fie fire groat at rivers of china Chin 1 the chinese before the brislain bris liin cra and again in the last century to explore the headwaters northern in thabet of the hoang ho and dying tsze kiang rivers s but their beia expeditions were driven back ay iy jr fierce mountain tribes and this pirl part of thabet lias has remained until I 1 alio present day ft S region 0 almost wholly unknown w n to geographers lea liello ii u baud of fourteen men did not win the honor they coveted without two severe fights with the savage Tang the superiority of their weapons was all that saved the russian kussian expedition the flint locks of tile the natives were mere no match for derdan rifles pie party came out unscathed but in defending their lives they kille dand wounded wounded forty men the ony only deplorable incident in ire long career as a traveler jn ili the ibs mountains mointa ius nearly feet above the sea the lite explorer found tile the two or three modest streams C each ach about seventy feet wide and shallow that from the sources of the li ho or yellow river which he fol followed loved for some distance toward llo bou boundaries daries of china then after retracing e his steps hc fic nent southward and at a distance of only sixty seven miles from the ilotti m ho he reached the muddy ind and rapid mateis of the yan yang 0 tsze kiang at a point chere the river liezin hemmed ica in by high mountains is feet wide and very deep lie ile spent several v in fit this region 0 which ill no white min man bad ever before visit visited vis itel cl ills his letters pro preceding ceding 7 the detailed history of the expedition yet to lie be written 0 give us wand wonderful erful pictures of some of the lie stran strangest and most diversified po portions etious of the e earths surface leavin leaving Sibe siberia at Kin Ki achta clata he crossed the hie 0 great rent gobi desert at its widest travelling tra velling miles over r grassy steppes ind and tile the sea of sand south of them extending to china A desert noted for its terrible cold in ili winter its almost tropical licit heat in summer r a scarcity ol of water a a general barrenness the mongols Mon gols cals nevertheless inhabit all parts of it their flocks subsisting on the poorest fodder then lie traversed a part of the plateau of northern thabet where the lie enormous attitude altitude of tile the plains from to cco abbie the sen sea prolongs winter until unlit june and july in ili latitudes considerably south of new york ho ile visited the interesting m takes lakes that diversify these anost etc anted regions in fit the world v orld and aid explored the mountain masses that wall in fit the entire northern frontier of then he made his way moo the chalu 0 of beautiful aud and highly bibo ly cultivated little oases that appear like itle little green islands in the lie n wild ild desert west of famous lob noor defeated once more by the chinese Cli inese in it liis ills efforts to reach bli leassa assa the rome of through hastern eastern estan to tile russian tu in central asia tile explorer says that galil is plentiful iu in northern thabet not far from the sources of the be lica ho lie he found natives washing 0 0 gold though 0 they du jus one or car two feet below the surface he sas they showed lim him whole handfuls handful of sold gold in fit lampi as hl 11 as pens peas anil and lie believes that with careful working vast treasures would be found here lie predicts that in the be chirse of ti lime lite northern thabet will ill bo be found to be as rich mid and perhaps richer than Cali californian Califor fornin iii in ili tile prec precious ions metals that lie ID fit the soil of this desert tableland asserts that the iron gols gets Thi beGus laid ami other livius living along the north Thi border and ami in fit chinesa to I 1 ire fare fired tir edof lof cainas chinas Cli inas oppressive rule said and burdensome taxation and that many of thein IOU C to become subjects of russia ile iio was repe repeatedly at bold 1 old by the chiefs both of tile the oases and mountain tribes that if russia would OTC g nc them a leader they would revolt n against ainest china and join their fortunes fort uns mth russian As till nn instance of tile tyranny of tile chinese s he tells telli of a 4 remarkable artifice employed a while lk ago O by tile the Chil chinchar to get et possession 07 of tile thief chief said and six aln ats of silver Le longing F to 10 tile f thief ilief of the poor little tribe at bob ob noor tile the edict suddenly forth that mhd of lob iob nor must weir wear tec lob bob laid always shaved their heads and t they hey were frightened fly by the order to adopt a detested chinese custo oui Ull before they succeeded succeed etl in having the odious edict reio revoked ked tit their thief f was compelled to pait with all his health though thoi igli tile most plot pio ini nent is only one cape of a score of trained and able explorers who lit in me interest of their govern intent are arc seeking out acry little known region ali fn tuner inner asia rus sias thirst t for conquest is not yet and there far are many fuels that just as she betted kuljaja anti and the amoor front china sit she a N ill some soine day dav in ull probability tur k eata a it estran estranged oed front from her oriental mailer to the aliat are arc now flow its il text cocat y V Y 1 sun stan |
