Where the “mountain walked” and overwhelmed the old tree-lined highway. In places this was covered hundreds of feet deep for miles, in others it had been carried bodily, trees and all, a quarter-mile or more away 437
In the earthquake district of western China whole terraced mountain-sides came down and covered whole villages. In the foreground is a typical Kansu farm 437
Kansu earlaps are very gaily embroidered in colored designs of birds, flowers, and the like. Pipes are smaller than their “ivory” mouthpieces 444
It is a common sight in some parts of Kansu to see men knitting, and still more so to meet little girls whose feet are already beginning to be bound 444
The village scholar displays his wisdom by reading where all can see him—through spectacles of pure plate-glass 445
A Kirghiz in the streets of Lanchow, where many races of Central Asia meet 445
An _ahong_, or Chinese Mohammedan mullah of Lanchow 448
Mohammedan school-girls, whose garments were a riot of color 448
A glimpse of Lanchow, capital of China’s westernmost province, from across the Yellow River 449
Looking down the valley of Lanchow, across several groups of temples at the base of the hills, to the four forts built against another Mohammedan rebellion 449
A Kansu vista near Lanchow, where the hills are no longer terraced, but where towns are numerous and much alike 464
This method of grinding up red peppers and the like is wide-spread in China. Both trough and wheel are of solid iron 464
Oil is floated down the Yellow River to Lanchow in whole ox-hides that quiver at a touch as if they were alive 465
The Yellow River at Lanchow, with a water-wheel and the American bridge which is the only one that crosses it in the west 465
The Chinese protect their boys from evil spirits (the girls do not matter) by having a chain and padlock put about their necks at some religious ceremony, which deceives the spirits into believing that they belong to the temple. Earlaps embroidered in gay colors are widely used in Kansu in winter 480
Many of the faces seen in Western China hardly seem Chinese 480
A dead man on the way to his ancestral home for burial, a trip that may last for weeks. Over the heavy unpainted wooden coffin were brown bags of fodder for the animals, surmounted by the inevitable rooster 481