Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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130 without a "thank you"; in fact I believe that is no word for thanks at the Dungel language. Certainly they never appear to use it. The nearest they come to it is to put up their thumbs I say "sai", which as the universal appreciation for "good" or "well done" There were two jungle girls at the yount - one of whom spoke Chinese a little, and they seemed much interested drinking biscuits of cheese & receiving appropriate returns. About the Dungels culture work - a small village nevertheless, softness are more appreciated than any other gift, that their own is one of virtues that chiefly, but simply mixed with one of simple unwashed humanity; and so Jungle seems to be free from it. Such men as Johnson the or two pieces whom I have met had it on a much less degree but it is ever present. I engaged an old man to dinner with us "Lillburn - do he returned to agreed to go out at five next day. We got away at 5-1/2 A.M. with the old men, Emma, & I in his book. we went up a falls in the rocky side of the main valley, riding along