The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24
First Woman Look Upon Worlds Most A1uf,l Pu,s1ne

she says. but I have praeticed quite g
 lot. both with a rifle and with d pistol
 and l usually can hit what 1 aim at So
 on one occasion when feeling a little
 doubtful about the attitude of the peo-
 pie among whom l was traveiing, and
 an eagle swooped conveniently low,
 shot it, and the moral effect seemed tu
 be good9 She makes little of the dan-
 gers attending her wanderings among
 the Mongols, whom she says are easy
 10 get along with if one is careful to
 stroke them the right way, but the fact
 remains that a short time after she passed through Ia Eol, in southern Mn goia, an Englishman named Grant, >-5 was in the telegraph service, was buteil- cred there ill cold blood for the sake of his food and stores.
 IL was while on her way from Picking te kalgan on the way to southern Mon Solia, that an unpleasant adventure be- fell the traveller, She had made a halt at the famous Ming tombs for the pur- pose of seeing them, and leaving her men outside with the animals, she struck a bargain with the official guardian of te entrance (who tried, without success to cheat herr and entered the sacred precincts. At the inner gate or door way of one of the principal temples she was stopped by another husky fellow who demanded dollal.
 Tt never does to let Chinaman think he can bully you" said Mrs. Bulstrode, ''and as I happen to be a fairly large person myself simply refused to give him the money, pushed past him and went in. Then, of course, he'd got me. He simply turned the key, and there was l securely locked In an almost pitch dark temple, tho only visitor to the place that day. and with no means of get ting out till the door was unlocked again
 It was not a plea sant situation by any means, but 1t is characteristic of Mrs Bulstrode that she lost no time in specu- lating on what was going to happen to her. but promptly began trying to dis cover how she was to escape. Two or three plans that seemed to promise well she tried. but none or them could be utilized. The only way that looked at all promising was to mount an internal stair case in the temple and then to scale a 30-foot wall which offered only the slight est assistance for such an undertaking. Just when things were literally looking rather black, however, the door was pushed open and a Ch,aese guide made an unexpected appearance and the pris- oner was free.
 Into southern Mongolia she penetrated about 120 miles. Near the frontier there were inns, mere sheds where one could put uP, but Dcy ouu tltfe WdS sheer and open prairie. The people were purely nomadic. Not a village was to be seen but here and there, usually not far from a well, were groups of tents, called yourts, which are mac- of filthy felt, stretched oyer wicker frames. Both tents and people were in an extraordinary con dition of dirt but the Mongol encamp- ments were uncommonly picturesque in primitive way.
 Never shall I forget" she says, rid ing at sunset one evening into one of these camps. On the plains where the tents stood were thousands of wild and shaggy ponies, and d number of the men were rounding them up. Besides be- ing not much less than the finest horse men in the world. the Mongols are won derfully expert with the lasso. little company riding at full gallop. absolutely reckless of danger, is sight to be re- membered. The women that evening were folding sheep when l came up with them They seem to do nearly all the hard work, and the men are much more inn posing people, although the women have a great love of pretty clothes and or naments and gratify it on every possible