Text Appearing Before Image: beside the road, and trotted on towardHei-ma-hou between waving fields ofwheat, buckwheat, millet, and oats—•oats as thick and meaty as any horsecould wish to eat. For sixty miles be-yond Kalgan the industrious Chinamanhas reclaimed the desert with his hoeand plow, and each year pushes forwardthe line of cultivation a score of milesinto the untouched plain. After tiffin Coltman and Lucandergalloped ahead while I trotted alongmore slowly in the rear. It was nearlyseven oclock and the trees about themission station had been visible for halfan hour. I was enjoying a gorgeous sun-set which splashed the western sky withgold and red, and lazily watching theblack silhouettes of a camel caravanswinging along the summit of a ridge amile away. On the road beside me atrain of laden mules and bullock-cartsrested for a moment with the drivershalf asleep. Over all the plain there laythe peace of a perfect autumn evening. Suddenly, from behind a little rise, Iheard the whir of a motor engine and Text Appearing After Image: LAMAS IN FRONT OF THE TEMPLE NEAR PANG-KIANG CAMELS STILL PLOD THEIR SILENT WAY ACROSS THE AGE-OLD PLAINS the raucous voice of a klaxon horn.Before I realized what it meant, I wasin the midst of a mass of plunging, snort-ing animals, shouting carters, and kickingmules. In a moment the caravan scat-tered wildly across the plains and theroad was clear save for the author ofthe turmoil, a black automobile. I wish I could make you who spendyour lives within a city know howstrange and out of place that motorseamed alone there upon the open plainon the borders of Mongolia. Imagine acamel or an elephant with all its Orientaltrappings suddenly appearing on FifthAvenue! But you would think at oncethat it had escaped from a circus or azoo and be mainly curious as to what thetraffic policeman would do when it didnot obey his signals. But all its strangeness and the factthat it was a glaring anachronism, didnot prevent me from abandoning myhorse to the mafu and stretching outcomfortably on the cu
Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Ta slika je vzeta iz Flickrove zbirke The Commons. Organizacija, ki jo je naložila tja, je pri tem uporabila oznako brez znanih avtorskopravnih omejitev, saj zanjo velja ena ali več od naslednjih možnosti:
Gradivo je v javni domeni, ker so avtorske pravice na njem potekle;
Gradivo je prišlo v javno domeno iz drugega razloga, npr. zaradi neupoštevanja zahtevanih formalnosti ali pogojev;
Organizacija je imetnik avtorskih pravic, vendar ne namerava vršiti nadzora;
Organizacija ima zadostne pravne pravice, da lahko uporabnike pooblašča za uporabo dela brez omejitev.