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CAMPS AND TRAILS
IN CHINA
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CAMPS AND TRAILS
IN CHINA
A NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATION, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT
IN LITTLE-KNOWN CHINA
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, M.A.
ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MAMMALS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND
LEADER OF THE MUSEUM'S ASIATIC ZOÖLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF 1916-1917;
FELLOW NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; CORRESPONDING MEMBER
ZOÖLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE BIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON; AUTHOR "WHALEHUNTING
WITH GUN AND CAMERA"
AND
YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE ASIATIC ZOÖLOGICAL EXPEDITION
ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1918
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Copyright, 1918, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
PRESIDENT HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN
AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE
AND ADMIRATION
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—Service.
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PREFACE
The object of this book is to present a popular narrativeof the Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition of the American Museumof Natural History to China in 1916-17. Details of a purelyscientific nature have been condensed, or eliminated, and emphasishas been placed upon our experiences with the strangenatives and animals of a remote and little known region in thehope that the book will be interesting to the general reader.
The scientific reputation of the Expedition will rest uponthe technical reports of its work which will be published in duecourse by the American Museum of Natural History.