Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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in Urge many times but it also never fails to bring forth interesting results, at first they do not seem to realize that it is their own faces they see but in a few moments it penetrates their sluggish brains and they laugh & chatter like chil- dren. In two pts. particular the mingols who come to our camp differ most pleasantly from the Chinese. They will sit quietly staring at me as long as we will let them but at a wave of the hand & an indication, that the audience is finished, they get up immediately and leave without a sign of displeasure. Moreover, they seldom touch the things about camp and never attempt to take away bits even bits of paper without first asking our permission. In the P.M. of July 31 when Madame Sunderland had left our camp--dr. Farrar rode down the valley for a rabbit hunt not far behind her. We were about 2 miles from the tent when we saw the lady riding back to us her faith was arth with excitement, screaming that her husband had returned. In a few moments we met with the expect hunter with another young mingol. They were a