108 Mongolia and if we escaped with our lives we would be more than lucky. It is exceedingly different to have one knows all the many religious superstitions and one must be extremely careful for otherwise serious trouble would arise. Sunday June 6 Burke camp early started both toward Ulge. Mr. Elarde on hills beyond our out-of-the-way area that are too many years. We did see an enormous mountain turd and I shot it with my rifle. It was a splendid male with the blue gular patch conspicuous and long archibers. The plumage away a short time before and he was alive. He was strutting about like a turkey cock, when I drew him, with wings drooping & tail spread wide. Unfortunately the bullet touched in so vastly that he was useless as a specimen. He was a little smaller than the one Colman killed and probably weighed about 25-lbs. We camped at night at the mill where we spent 3 days - (Camp #1) thus relieved by the red Mingle this family. It was a wonderful evening and I shall never forget the peace & quiet of the plains. On the way up we caught two young demoiselle cranes. We saw the parents running along with the little ones behind them. Keep as we approached the guns