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Mongolia's climate changed. Dry winds shriveled the vegetation; drifting sand built hills on old lakebeds. What had once been a green animal paradise became a desert called Gobi, sparsely inhabited by a sturdy but backward breed of humans, together with herds of wild asses, antelopes, domesticated sheep and draft camels. The centuries passed...
...Siberia to Alaska; central Asia had been the original point of dispersal of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Dr. Osborn mentioned the matter to his ablest zoologist and that young man, Roy Chapman Andrews, industriously raised half a million dollars to take a band of assorted scientists into the Gobi for five years of intensive digging. As every one knows, the Andrews expeditions have thus far unearthed sufficient in the way of dinosaur skeletons and eggs, rare baluchitheria and traces of Mousiterian man to substantiate Dr. Osborn's hypothesis in spectacular fashion (TIME...
Twenty-two years ago, two souls felt the lure of the Gobi Desert. The girl went as missionary; the man as explorer of the mysteries of Mongolia. The girl heard of the man and came unto his camp in the garb of a male. Her sex was discovered; love kindled. A Belgian missionary married them; two years they wandered honeymooning, unseen by white man. They returned to France and the fickle adventurer abandoned his desert mate and their little daughter, Pauline...
...Kara Khoto in the Gobi desert was one of the expedition's objectives. But progress was very slow. In many places the roads were mere gullies worn 20 to 30 feet below the surface of the surrounding country by the countless years of travel over them. In the rains these roads became mud sloughs. The expedition actually considered itself fortunate if it was able to cover 20 miles a day in the carts in which it went as far as Suchow in Kansu. Here it changed the carts for camels and turned northward...
...journey, in reply discussing the external nature of the country, are, as has been said before, the last word in bad construction. In fact little or no construction is evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance the magnificent organ rocks which rise for hundreds of feet above...