Travelling by a world-circuiting steamer, she reached Shanghai late in the summer of 1926. Here che made the acquaintance of Mr. Quentin Young, brother of Mr. Jack Young who was on the Roosevelt Expedition to Western China in 1928 Mr. Quentin Young agreed to cooperate with Mrs. Harkness, and in due course they set off for Chengtu. capital of Szechuen, whence they travelled north-westward into the already mentioned. There, while taking part in a hunt with the local natives, they ame upon a very young giant panda Which had been left by its mother ina hollow tree as she fled before the hunters. This was fortune beyond their wildest hopes. They hurried with their prize back to camp, which was immediately struck and the whole expedition set out on its return journey to Chengtu and
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