The wolf, however, seemed little worried and Kept well ahead at an easy loping gallop, even falling into 'a walk at times, as if in derision of our efforts. After a chase of several About a couple of hundred yards from the temple is the governmental lly with the emees of the Pailing-miao Council. These consist of about a dozen yurts (the Mongol felt tents) most of which were closed up, as] Prince Teh and the other members of his government were away in the ast holding a conference with the: Changpei government at a place called Chapser. About ten miles of Pailingmiao they have started to erect permanent government olices, but T'was told that the work is at present at a standstill, was said that the reason for! purling these new offices so far from the town, was in order to remove the Council from the influence of the reactionary lamas of the monastery. This would appear to be a somewhat superfluous precaution. Judging from the brutish faces of many of the] Jamas, I saw and from the disrespect ful way the common people speak of them, one would scarcely have
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