ABSTRACT
THE expedition’s long caravan journey was to set I out from Hsi-Pao ťou which is the terminus of the Ching-Chang railway and the last outpost of mechanical civilization in that part of the world, and it was in this Chinese town that the whole staff of the Sven Hedin expedition and its numerous rank and file foregathered for the first time. We represented three European and two Asiatic nations, but it was not long before our common labours in the multitudinous preparations for the start welded us into one big family.
