Word: shan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...
...Cherrie is to be the advance agent, preparing arrangements there before the Roosevelts arrive. In early May or June, as soon as the snow melts from the passes of the Himalayas, the party will cross and continue its explorations on the plateau of Pamir and beyond toward the Tian Shan Mountains...
...descriptions brought back by Marco Polo several centuries ago furnished the first account of that strange land. The animals sought are the Ovis Poli, or great sheep described by Polo, the yarklandstag, the ibex of Tian Shan, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, and the markhor (large goat...
...troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade...