Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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wonderfully picturesque pair. Each carried a ruskant with its single tripled slings arms both and on its saddle behind! their saddles shone staring apartened a dangling mass of skirts. Three female retrink, three felons, a nurse like of a pair of small more antlers in the vervet. The young fellow also carried a fawn white that they had for that morning. Madame Surr borde rode in front behind beside her husband chatting volubly between the business of driving in half a frozen horse, while the other replied in unsayable in its unsayable replies of its hunter were delightful in a voice which seemed to come from a long way off or from under earth beneath his horses feet, I think at first that he was deaf for it was the sort of voice we is accustomed to hear from a person hard of hearing. But my aunt was not correct as I later discovered that it was only me of the many peculiarities of this man. He was an redish man, perhaps 55 yrs, alto my guesses after ages of friends are not reliably good, with a face as dried and weather beaten as the leather beneath his saddle. The other hunter was not more than 25 - with an alert