Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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106 Our carts arrived at 6 P.M. and encamped on a patch of ground a hundred yards from the well. It was raining hard when we arrived and there was no possibility of hunting, Monday, some of the horses had stayed during the night and it took the same hours to find them. All day the rain continued with intermittent flashes of sunlight and we stayed in camp all day. I got a remembrance of a splendid caravan of camels which came in the well to drink. We caught 5 or 10 Damasters in the long bunch grass near the water. Ran about early afternoon and they were all singles very wild. After two hours riding saw a herd of 20 and had a fruit run. Shot one which went big & my pony ran it down. Shrunkled it & half an hour later got another from same herd which had not gone far. After this we saw many antelope & had half a dozen hard gallops, but they were all very wild. Two of two animals. Saw me jumping dutele running with 2 fimbles (the first time we have seen them) Together the rate I could go as fast