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The traffic from the capital to and from the plains of Manchuria and Mongolia is conducted by Transport Camels.

By means of these animals large quantites of Brick Tea is conveyed to remote districts; compressed into this form tea passes as money with the nomadic tribes.

Pleasant little groups of traders are constantly to be met with on the road, when they make a halt, a camp being formed the camels are ranged round it in the form of a circle guarded by large shaggy and ferocious dogs.

The people themselves are of a kindly disposition and are most hospitable.