Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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8 June a billy-shit another reddly shilld & Owen also - saw several camel Cameras - camels shedding & look very ragged - the chinese cultivated patches, men plowing fields beginning to turn green - trees at them a had just budding saw one fox but no antelope - billy's 18 Cotters mongrels - from car - look just like our gophers at home - don't build nests in fern of hole - not live in exterior village as our western prairie dogs but still usually here number together females all carrying young but they have winter pelage - Rainfed 90 mi. from /them^ has at 4.35 - Skimmered all gophers & two cranes - turned lighted at night by Dulco - first time ever have electric light on go Monday, May 19 Left at 7 a.m. wind fairly strong - saw me a few gophers - minutes of quills (black cappa reached Panjan about noon & just beyond P in the plain saw a flush of golden plover - shot me - while waiting for me the people grunted saw an antelope (gaye) which ran across the road in front of us - car wa going at 40 mi per hr. & the animal was doing at least 15 mi nod. - shot at it but it disappeared over a bluff x mi east of - shortly after saw another,