The Calcutta Review April 1906

To do this we crossed the Great Wall not that in the neigbourhood of Pekin always visited by tourists but that which in almost endless extent since it is met with in Manchuria and on the border of Kansu traces the limits of the northern frontier of the great empire. [...] The general appearance of the country after leaving the fertile valley of the Jung-yang is again gloomy and poverty-stricken and the caravan climbed the mountaious district referred to above over ground made up of rolling stones and dried clay. [...] The road continuing southwards next day merged in the bed of the river Yutto which is a tributary of the Sang-kan-ho itself a tributary of the Yung-tinho. [...] By the irony of fate the inhabitants of the district have dug out of the mounds of earth that form the slope stables for their cattle. [...] One of these mandarins who rejoices in the title of the Tartar Marshal is the real head of the Ordos of Toumet and of Northern Mongolia.