Cleveland County herald., 1920-11-25

Mosos, Lisos and others, are rapidly disappearing and yet almost nothing Is known of their origin, life or GUS toms.
 Keep Chinese Out.
 Although many of the aborigines were scattered among the mountains of Yunnan and Kweichow and along the Tibetan frontier, the Lolos still maintain an independent territory in Szechuan, one of the richest and most populous provinces of China. No Chi nese is permitted to cross the invisible lines of their "kingdom" without the probability of incurring a violent death. Continual raids are carried on back and forth along the border. Per haps the Chinese will capture score or more of Lolos who have yentured to glimpse the world beyond their wild hills and valleys. In retaliation few nights later, the Lolos will burn whole Chinese village, kill all the men and carry the women into slavery. Thus the Lolos have earned a reputa- ton as barbaric savages. And yet French explorer who crossed their territory, properly "chaperoned," re- ports them to be charming people, of hospitable temper and high mentality. He is one of the few scientists who have penetrated the land of the Lolos and live to tell the tale. Mir. Andrews, who has hunted with Lolos in Yunnan, found them independent, to be sure, but delightful in their native courtesy and simplicity.
 He says: "It is impossible not to be interested in this strange people. They are totally unlike the Chinese, for they are tall and slender, with long faces and patrician noses, and they show every indication of Caucasian blood. If they have 1t, where did it come from? This is one of the ques- tions that should be answered before the Lolos disappear, as the other tribes as rapidly doing."
 There are many reasons why Cen tral Asia has remained scientifically unexplored for so long time. It is so remote and difficult of access that the cost of conducting work on a large scale is enormous. Moreover, the country and its inhabitants pre- sent unusual obstacles to scientific re- search. Not only are there vast in- tersecting mountain chains, waterlesS deserts and treeless plains, but in many parts the climate Is too cold for effective work in winter. In some Yol suspicious of foreigners; religious su- perstitions greatly handicap research and make it decidedly dangerous.
 Chinese Superstitious.
 The Chinese have many supersti- tions regarding the ground. The feng and water, must always be favorable before burial takes place, and it is exceedingly unlucky to disturb the ground in the region of a cemetery. Though our paleontologists are cer- tain to encounter difficulties in the more settled portions, they can prob ably overcome them by tact and a proper understanding of the situa- tion. Those in charge of railroads and other commercial projects that have involved digging in China have always been able to compromise with pro testing villagers and they have found even within the past ten years a very great change in attitude. In Tibet conditions are even more difficult All the gold in the country belongs to the Lama church and the natives can con- ceive of only two reasons why for eigners should come to their country either as gold-seekers or as mission aries.
 Obtaining the animals for the groups in the Hall of Asiatic Life will fur nish excitement enough for the most blase sportsmen. In corner of the Gobi desert are a few herds of the only living wild horses. Moreover, there are, in the Gobi, wild camels and wild asses, as well as antelOpes that can run sixty miles an hour. The horses, asses and antelopes can be run down in motor cars, lasSoed by the Mongol cowboys, and some of the specimens brought back alive to the New York Geological Park. Not far from this particular part of the desert, mountains tower to height of fifteen thousand feet, where there are big horn sheep and ibex that have never heard the crack of high-power rifle. On the Tibetan steppes are enormous yak, snow leopards, giant pandas and beautiful golden monkeys with blue, upturned noses some of these species are among the rarest and least known animals of the world. In China is the takin, a creature with a veritable "golden fleece" strange oxlike anil maj that roams the highest mountain valleys and that actually represents an intermediate stage between the an- telope and the goat. In the forests of Manchuria is the long-haired tiger of the Amur River; tiger larger and finer than the royal Bengal of Indian fame, which has furnished sport for kings and emperors; tiger living in caves amid forests drifted deep with snow.
 The scientific results of the third