pongkiong

Updated: July 24, 2025

Two hundred miles from Kalgan we passed the telegraph station of Pongkiong manned by two Chinese. It is nothing but a little wooden building with a bit of a garden. The Chinese has his garden as surely as the Englishman, only he spends his energy in growing things to eat.

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia