A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 8

A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.

Wo do not yet know all the world and tho people in it. Three English travellers, who are out exploring in that great northern portion of the Chinese Empire called Mongolia, have just discovered some most interesting people living far away from the rest of humanity. The land teems with- vast forests, which have made it impossible hitherto to explore and map it. Besides tho forests, there arc mountains and beautiful valleys and fair plains. Hero live these strange people—some of them mountaineers, some of them hardy foresters, some of them kings of little glades and valleys. Many of them live by keeping reindeer. Nobody knew before that reindeer were to he found in tiie Chinese Empire, but there they are—wild and tame, two sorts of cadi: the ordinary kind and a species with a winter coat which is snow-white. Tho natives ride them, drive them, milk thorn, live upon their flesh, and make all sorts of useful things from their hide, hair, and hones.

And hero in those vast solitudes dwell these lonely people, knowing nothing of oilier nations, of seas and oceans, rivers and lakes, continents, towns and cities. They are civilised, hut they never hoard of steam and electricity, ol gas and tho telegraph. The world to them is as-it was to man thousands of years ago.

Act in these almost deserted lands there was once a crowded civilisation. The vast cemeteries of other days prove that; and in one silent spot a great straight road stretches broad and good and level, a road such as tiio Romans used to make when they were building a universal empire.