dog was still in good pelage. We moved camp that day to the juncture of the valleys 3 or 4 miles away. It was fine weather but the next day it rained hard. S. D. The y, however went off up a branch valley to hunt about within the forest. So heavy that it was useless & I saw nothing. They returned finally with a fawn roebuck male, & a yearling wild pig (female). She was a perfect gemmer and in fine pelage this; the roebuck had lost all but a few split red hairs in his short brown winter coat. We decided that it was necessary to go to Uiga to find out about returning to Peking and so returned to camp on Aug. 28. We expected to go to Uiga on the following day, but S. D. promised to go there meet us there & our young lamas we discovered had been making such a wholesale squeeze from us that we could no longer talk them into it. He had played his game too cleverly and not content with squeezing us had ex- tended it to the Chinese servants also. In fact everything they purchased from us he gets out of him a commission. He made a fatal mistake in this for while the Chinese were perfectly content to have us work, they did not relish its extent or its terms. The result was that Chen ordered our entire