Sining, Dec. 10.
Dr, Aurel Stein is at present in the Kanchow district, northwest Kansu. When in the mountains south of Kanchow he fell off his horse and bruised his leg very badly ea that he had to be carried back to Kanchow in mule litter. On his way back he met Rodney' Gilbert, a young American just returning from the Sinkiang Province, who went back to Kanchow with him and remained a few days till he was feeling much better.
{t is reported that he has found traces of another great wall running to the north-west and thinks that it is continuation of Tsin Shu-huang's Great Wall, but this cannot be, for there is a large tablet at the weet end of Tsin Shu-huang's Great Wall which finishes: on the edge of a precipice, giving an account of the finish (see W. E. Geil's Great Wall.)
It will be interesting to know that there still another Great. Wall, but surely there would be some record of it and Marco Polo makes no mention of it. It possibly might be a branch like the long branch that runs at right angles from the Great Wall two days south-east of Hangchow, striking over five mountain ridges, piercing the whole west of Bining and losing itself in the mountains south as Sining. There are other smaller branches in different parts of north and west Kansu.
Who is Rodney Gilbert?
He is a young American from the State of Pennsylvania, age about twenty-six. By profession a newspaper reporter, of a roving turn of mind, yet with the view "f obtaining a wider knowledge, has spent a few months in' Germany, also a few months in Mexico, where he was held up prisoner by the Federalist. The Far Esat having its attractions, he made his way to Shanghai, where a splendid opportunity opened out before him to see the inland provinces of China, at no outlay personally, by acting as agent for @ patent medicine. After visiting several central pro-vinoes he was appointed to visit "north-west provinces and finished his engagement with the firm when he had reached the northwest boundary of Chins. From thence at his own expense he made his way into the far Sinkiang Province and had hoped to make his way westward aa far as Constantinople, but was disappointed in his object by being robbed on the way.
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