INDEX Abercrombie & Fitch Co., 76 Abertsen, Mr., Chinese Customs, employee of, 290 , 294 ; discovered hunting ground near Hui-yao, 298 ; killed two gorals, 298 Africa, 4 Akeley, Carl E., 4 , 76 Alaska, 4 Allen, Dr. J. A., x American flags, 43 American Legation, Peking, xi American Museum Journal, ix American Museum of Natural History, 2 , 5 , 77 , 200 ; trustees of, specimens being prepared at, 321 Americans, 11 Ammunition, loss of, 79 Amoy, 16 Anas boscas (Mallard ducks), 186 Anglo-Chinese College, 4 Animal life, lack of, 89 Annamits, 78 Antlers, 306 , 312 Ape, gray ( Pygathrix ), 255 Apodemus (white-footed mouse), 122 , 176 Asia, x Asia Magazine, quoted from, 152 Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition, 2 ; members of, 8 Assam, 241 Assistants, 4 A-tun-tzu, 198 , 294 Babies, killing and selling of, 206 Baboon, brown ( Macacus ), 255 Baboon, Indian ( Macacus rhesus ), 279 Bamboo chickens, 26 Bandits, attack of, 95 Bankhardt, Mr., 82 , 40 , 42 , 207 Bat apartment house, 80 Bat cave, description of, 29 ; experience of girl in, 81 Bats, method of killing, 80 Batrachians, 310 Bear cubs ( Ursus tibetanus ), purchased at Teng-yueh, 296 Bedding, 93 Berger, Anna Katherine, acknowledgment to, xi Bering Strait, 1 Bernheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L., x Betel nut, 241 , 242 Bhamo, 294 , 315 , 317 , 319 ; railroad from, 81 ; road to, 318 ; description of, 320 Big Ravine, description of, 26 ; temples near, 26 Birds, game, 90 Blarina , 176 Boat, Chinese, eye on, 15 Bode, Mr., 99 Bohea Hills, 64 Bound feet, 34 Bowdoin, George, x Bradley, Dr., 78 ; established leper hospital at Paik-hoi, 205 Brahmin priests, 186 Brahminy docks, 186 ; habits of, 187 Bridge, suspension, description of, 218 Bridges, rope, 199 Brigand, seal of a pardoned, 210 Brigandage, 207 , 208 , 211 Brigands, 86 ; beheading of, 41 ; infest Yün-nan, 88 ; description of, 96 British American Tobacco Co., Hongkong, 97 , 100 British East Africa, 4 Brooke, Englishman, killed by Lolos, 174 Buffaloes, 265 ; water, 218 Bui-tao, 60 , 61 Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Director of, x Burial, expenses of, 89 Burma, 8 , 91 , 191 ; border of, 197 , 241 ; girls of, 242 , 248 , 248 ; mammals caught near, 250 ; frontier of, 264 , 265 , 294 , 316 ; boundary of, 319 Burmans, 289 , 241 Calcutta, 297 , 321 Caldwell, Rev. Harry R., xi , 8 , 17 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 28 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ; letter from, 82 ; house of, 86 ; stationed at Futsing, 44 ; tiger hunting, method of, 45 , 46 , 55 , 56 , 61 , 64 , 141 ; obtains serows at Yen-ping, 142 ; purchases serow skins in Fukien, 148 , 152 , 154 , 207 California, 8 Callosciurus erythræus , 89 , 280 Camera equipment, 75 Canadian Pacific R.R. Co., Hongkong, General Passenger Agent of, xi Cantonese, chiefly of Shan stock, 262 Capricornulus crispus , 140 Capricornis sumatrensis , 141 Capricornis sumatrensis argyrochætes , 29 , 141 Capricornis sumatrensis milne-edwardsi , 141 Caravan, robbing of, 96 ; buying of, 104 ; renting of, 104 Caravan ponies, 104 Caravans, distance traveled by, 158 , 197 Cary, F. W., Commissioner of Customs, 4 , 77 Casarca casarca (ruddy sheldrake), 186 Caverns, 162 Central Asia, 1 Central Asian plateau, 1 Cervus macneilli , 175 Chair-coolies, 317 Chairs, description of, 92 , 317 Chang, Dr., 294 Chang-hu-fan, 20 ; night at, 21 Changlung, 273 ; ferry at, 274 , 281 Chien-chuan, 198 Chi-li, 7 China, 1 , 2 ; aboriginal inhabitants of, 3 ; press, 13 ; inland mission, 78 , 101 Chinaman, Cantonese, 242 Chinese, Republic, xi , 2 ; army of, 7 ; face saving, 11 ; Foreign Office, 11 ; screaming, habit of, 15 ; lack of sympathy of, 19 ; not affected by sun, 22 ; love of companionship, 22 ; bride of, 69 ; wedding of, 72 ; dress of, 72 ; Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, meeting with, 82 ; education of, 88 ; villages, description of, 90 ; etiquette of, 102 , 158 , 190 ; New Year, 212 , 213 , 214 ; collecting debts of, 216 Chipmunk ( Tamiops macclellandi ), 230 Chi-yuen-kang, 26 , 27 , 29 Chou Chou, 99 Christians, native, persecution of, 21 Christianity, lesson in, 39 Christmas, 195 ; celebration of, 196 Chu-hsuing Fu, 94 , 204 Chung-tien, 172 , 175 , 176 , 183 , 201 Civet ( Viverra ), 246 , 247 Clive, Captain, 268 , 270 , 272 Clothing, 75 Colgate, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M., x Collecting case, 228 Color plates, 240 Confucius, rules of, 67 Cook, difficulty in obtaining, 17 ; description of, 105 Coolies, 54 Cormorants, 280 Corn, 91 Cows, used as burden-bearers by Chinese, 218 Cranes, 184 ; habits of, 185 , 199 , 236 Crossbows, 229 Cui-kau, 18 ; description of, 80 Da-Da, 45 , 54 Daing-nei, 54 , 66 Dâk (mail) bungalows, 319 Da-Ming, 33 Darjeeling, 144 Davies, Major H. R., ix , 93 ; quoted, 137 , 138 , 139 , 191 Dead, burying of, 151 Deer, 246 , 301 , 312 , 313 Deer, barking, 63 Denby, Hon. Charles, 9 Dennet, Tyler, quoted, 152 D'Ollone, Major, member French Expedition, 174 D'Orleans, Prince Henri, 186 Dog, red, death of, 135 Dogs, description of, 115 ; for food, 115 Doumer, M., Governor-General of French Indo-China, 93 Duai Uong, 51 Ducks, 90 , 198 ; brahminy, shooting off 199 Dupontès, Georges Chemin, assistance of, to expedition, 80 Eastes, Mr., Consul, 294 Education, foreign, 71 Elaphodus , 182 Elephants, 219 , 222 Elk, 1 Ellsworth, Lincoln, x Embry, Rev. and Mrs., China Inland Mission, members of, 294 Empress Dowager, 70 ; issued edict prohibiting opium growing, 91 Equipment, purchase of, 4 Erh Hai or Ta-li Fu Lake, 199 Etiquette, 102 Europe, 1 European war, 8 Evans, H. G., xi ; assistance of, 100 , 106 , 186 , 200 , 298 Expedition, announcement of, 5 ; applicants for positions on, 5 ; results of, 316 Expeditions, preliminary, 2 Eye on Chinese boat, 15 Farmer, Mr., 320 Fauna, mammalian, 316 Felis temmincki , 108 Felis uncia , 108 Ferry, 160 Fletcher, H. G., 294 , 295 Flying squirrel, 108 , 191 Foochow, 8 , 10 , 11 , 15 , 16 ; foreign residents of, 17 ; streets of, 17 , 23 , 24 , 85 , 40 ; mail from, 48 ; schools for native girls at, 67 ; woman's college at, 67 , 206 , 207 , 209 , 321 Food box, 74 Foot binding, origin of, 69 ; method of, 70 ; Natural Foot Society of, 70 ; agitation against, 71 Forbidden City, 12 Ford, James B., x Foreign Office, 97 Forest conservation, lack of, 88 Formosa, 11 Forrest, Mr., 294 Fossil animals, 108 ; beds, 108 Francolins, 26 French Consul, 78 Frick, Childs, x Frick, Henry C, x Fukien Province, China, 8 , 6 , 10 ; deforestation of, 24 ; mammals of, 25 , 26 , 28 , 29 ; climate and temperature of, 68 ; collecting in summer at, 68 ; birds of, 64 ; herpetology of, 64 ; trapping for small mammals at, 64 ; zoölogical study of, 64 ; language of, 65 ; travel in, 65 ; servants in, 65 ; serows hunted in, 148 , 204 ; missionary work in, 207 Funeral customs, 151 , 158 Futsing, 43 ; blue tiger hunting at, 54 Galapagos Islands, 4 Gallus gallus , 247 Gallus lafayetti , 248 Gallus sonnerati , 248 Gallus varius , 248 Gamblers, 215 Geese, 90 , 198 Gen-kang, 224 , 226 , 229 , 288 Gibbon ( Hylobates ), 258 ; description of, 254 , 255 , 281 , 284 ; hunting of, 285 Goffe, Consul-General at Yün-nan Fu, 270 Goitre, prevalence of, 92 Gorals, 25 , 76 ; first hunt for, 120 ; ceremonies at death of, 121 , 123 ; collecting for groups, 126 ; color of, 126 ; invisibility of, 128 ; description of, 144 ; horns of, 144 ; distribution of, 144 ; hunting of, 144 , 194 ; fighting of, 145 ; habits of, 146 ; feet of, 146 , 194 ; hunting of, at Hui-yao, 302 , 309 Great Invisible, 44 Grierson, Ralph C, xi , 294 , 295 , 305 , 317 Grus communis , 236 Grus nigricollis , 184 Habala, 164 ; hunting at, 165 , 167 Haendel-Mazzetti, Baron, 113 , 123 , 126 , 164 Hainan, description of, 77 ; fauna of, 77 Haiphong, 77 ; arrival at, 78 , 79 Hanna, Rev. William J., xi , 79 , 89 , 101 , 106 , 201 , 204 , 205 , 206 , 294 Hanoi, description of, x , 79 Harper's Magazine , ix Hartford, Mabel, 22 , 23 , 204 Heller, Edmund, 3 , 4 , 10 , 61 , 75 , 79 , 85 , 94 , 104 , 105 , 115 , 116 , 122 , 123 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 146 , 150 , 161 , 162 , 173 , 185 , 195 , 196 , 227 , 229 , 247 , 275 , 276 , 284 , 291 , 298 , 299 , 300 , 306 , 311 , 312 Himalaya Mountains, 1 Hoi-hau, 77 Homes, 69 Ho-mu-shu, 281 ; monkeys found near, 282 , 283 , 289 , 291 , 318 Hongkong, purchase of supplies at, 74 , 200 , 297 , 321 Hoolock ( Hylobates hoolock ), 289 Hornbill, 245 , 252 Horses, size of, 85 , 104 Hospital attendants, 38 Hotenfa, 129 , 130 , 181 , 182 , 134 , 185 , 161 , 171 , 174 , 193 , 194 , 195 Hsia-kuan, description of, 99 , 108 , 212 Hui-yao, 142 , 145 , 298 , 300 ,