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Camps and Trails in China / A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Chapter 6: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The narrative recounts an extended scientific expedition through remote regions of China, blending travel writing, natural history, and adventure. The team describes camp life, specimen collecting and field methods, close encounters with wildlife including tiger hunts and cave-dwelling bats, and practical challenges of transport and outfitting. Interludes record interactions with local peoples, missionary settlements, political unrest, and cultural practices such as women's roles and ceremonies. Photographic records and journals supplement the field observations, while technical scientific results are left to formal reports; emphasis remains on the explorers' experiences and the landscapes, animals, and human communities encountered.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Our camp on the Snow Mountain at an altitude of 12,000 feet
Frontispiece
 
Yvette Borup Andrews with a pet Yün-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 Yün-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
 
A Shan village 234
A Shan woman spinning 234
 
A Kachin woman in the market at Meng-ting 240
One of our Shan hunters with two yellow gibbons 240
 
Our camp on the Nam-ting River 246
The Shan village at Nam-ka 246
 
The head of a gibbon killed on the Nam-ting River 254
A civet 254
 
A Shan girl 260
A Shan boy 260
 
A suspension bridge 288
Mrs. Andrews feeding one of our bear cubs 288
 
A sambur killed at Wa-tien 302
The head of a muntjac 302
 
A mountain chair 312
The waterfall at Teng-yueh 312
 
Map I. The red line indicates the travels of the Expedition 318
 
Map II. Route of the Expedition in Yün-nan 320