The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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Temple only once a year To pray for a successful wigan * to god or Buddha - On our way back we saw the Chinese trying on or for sale ponies near one of their walls. The ponies were being ridden at a fast single-foot past a crowd of spectators. We stopped in a bar shop near the south wall where a large stock of horses & coats were shown. Coats made of Mountain goat $2,000,00 $1,000, a skin price were shown; Wild cat, gray squirrel, etc were much less, $20.00 usually Pangal skins were $30.- 40., Horses of many colors were shown us, red, brown, gray, white, etc, 2.0 At 8:15 AM I left the hotel with the Brunnsleeds in a motor car for the Hsi Chi Man station situated 4 miles away and N.W. gate of the Tartar