Part three, "River in a Foreign Land" commemorates her departed father, named Hsi Chen-tuo in Chinese. In the appendix, Hsi clearly details the overall situation in the country of Mongolia (called "Outer Mongolia" in Chinese), in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and in Russia's Mongolian community.
輯三〈異鄉的河流〉則為紀念過逝父親拉席登多克（漢名席振鐸）之作。附錄部分，席慕蓉清楚詳述了蒙古國、內蒙古自治區與蘇聯境內各蒙古國家概況。