Among the thrills experienced by the members of the expedition during the sojourn in the desert was nocturnal invasion by an army of, brown vipers. Mr. Granger very! nearly packed up one or two by accident amongst his laundry and Mr. Lovell, the expedition's motor' expert, was alarmed to discover reptile wriggling up each leg of his camp coat, 'The snakes coiled themselves up' in hats and shoes and of nearly 50 that visited the camp nine were effectively'
ched. As the spot where the expedition had camped was regard-sacred ground, the Mongols were averse to killing anything and Mr. Andrews declares that you gould occasionally see one of them "'shooing" a viper away with a handkerchief, "Connie," 'a huge black vulture! measuring 9 ft. 6 in. from tip to tip of her great wings, has been! Drought back from the desert as a souvenir of the expedition's 1925 trip to the Gobi. She bea very friendly bird her extreme entirely won the hearts of her captors. Mr. Andrews is taking her with him to New York, where intends to present her to ° the! Zoological Society, and hopes. to have her down in Peking in: the course of a week or so.
Mr. Andrews expects to sail from Shanghai by the str. President Taft on October 15 and will leave Peking a few days before that. He will begin lecturing in New Yo week after he arrives and will lecture in London during the latter part of February on his way back to Peking, via the _trans-Sib route-—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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