Myrtle Holton at home. Could she ride!!!

Poplar trees the favorite. Where turned from the Yellow R. to the Sining. The mts. across Y.R.

Salar country. Flour mills anchored outside Shunhwa.

Salar country. The emigrants from Samarkand saw this and were glad.

Shunhwa, Tsinghai. Outside the wall from the Holton's home.

Kehtsikung. The Salar shrine. Five times a day ""Allahu akhba[r]"" - God is great - sounds from this tower.

Kehtsikung. The Salar shrine. The minaret.

The Salar country. A small Salar community around their mosque.

Salar country. Looking down the Yellow River at Shunhwa.

Kehtsikung. One of the ""kumbas"" or tomb of a Salar saint. Note the trees growing out of the graves.

Kumbum. Tibetan nomads.

Tei Tsz San near Hochow.

Majestic Tibetan border.

Payenjung. Its beginnings were in a military camp to quell the Tibetans. The minaret of mosque within the city.

Crossing the T'ao River. A curiosity of nature.

Sian to Tungkwan. The village which sheltered us on the way west.

Hia [sic] Yuan Hsien, Kansu. 1920 earthquake area. Poplars in the breeze.

T'ung Hsin Ch'en, Ningsia. [The large mosque on the hill.] Looking out through the arch.

Hua Shan.

On the road from Lungchow. Typical landscape.