Major Dockray's Two-Year Trip to Erect Stations: Quaint Fs Native Superstition: The Record Caravan for China sary repairs effected. These settlements are virtually cases, with barren, unpeopled wastes between. had to be added to the burdens of Over these arid stretches water the ponies. At Huchow, the cen-
Peking, Oct. 30.
5 tre of a large, fertile area, a with the cart column, but being Jonger halt than usual was made, Major Dockray, the Marconi Well mounted was able to ride for the animals were showing ex-"wireless expert who erected the With the camels at will and see tra signs of fatigue. There stations at Tihuafu and Kashgar, that all went well with both Major Dockray met a Swedish is back in Peking and is well on Parts of the caravan. The carts woman living with the Mohammethe highway te complete recovery still followed the broad hard way, dans. She had_ been there for from an illness that developed as while the camels travelled by nar-many years and appeared con-the result of hardships encoun-rower: tracks, where water, was tented with her lot. tered during the past two years. more plentiful, never having to The preliminary arrangements go more than three days without
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