Traveller Relates Story of Politics and Some Adventures on the Way Politics and bandits, camel _expresses and' long vigils in the Gobi desert are. mere incidents to travel {nthe estimation of Dr. Pietro Or-
{andini, native of Venice, who compares himself with Marco Polo, that famous sufferer from "travel" sick: ness". Dr. Orlandini, with " medial degree from Padua and Bologna, and tone from the Schoo! for Tropical Diz Seases.in Brussels, must search out new places, new faces, and watch the pageant of politics as an onlooker to happiest. His. latest journey, through inland China took hist through Szechuan, Mongolia, Kansu, and into Urumeni, Sinkiang, which he terms the "city forbidden to fore clmers". It began when Dr." Or-Jandini, pondering. over his travels Burope, the Belgian Congo, Amer~ ica, and Australia, remembered. that although he had paid visits to the China Coast, had "not been to" the Gobi desert and he decided forthwith to investigate the Gobi, and to cross ala. The whole journey was accom plished with no more equipment ould be carried in a auMebag and a Sultrease. "Accompanied by a sole tery. lama, he visited Peilingmias Monastery''tn "Mongolia, and, "while Waiting for a caravan, to pass, wes, liven poison" in his food." "I" wes ery iit for two days, and we went fon he remarked casually, adding that at Eisin river he left the lama, learning' that the latter merely' been on a pilgrimage to thank the fds for uring him from insanity!
Sinkiang, he said, is too faredistant, "and o It became divorced in feeling from the Chinese Govern ment. tu 1601, 4 revolt caused diseaistaction with Governor Shin, regime was started in #ami by the Sorts, or Turks. Gen. Mah Churying was "in command of the Tungnay {oops (Chinese "Mohammedans) in Kensu, ud was called upon by the Saris to support them in their re= volt against Governor Shing.
'The villages: are flattened, and no house stands, nor does any' man live in all that devastated stretch.
I reached Urumchi, and was for-hidden to continue. I had to turn back, and came on down the Yellow River to Peiping, arriving here a few weeks ago. My experiences. will used for a book, and in that T shall recount all my experiences."
The traveller has photographs recording a fascinating trip, and his memory is keen and sharp, Dozens lof anecdotes brightened his tale, des pite his offhand manner. There were stories of Mongolians who could not bought to perform any service, but whose ready hospitality persuaded the doctor that they are among the most dignified and splendid peoples rth—and adventures with bandits,
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