Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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We passed by the valley which leads over the mt. to the Wigo Trail and crossing the river camped on the south side at the entrance to a beautiful valley the sides of which were covered with a heavy spruce forest. In the afternoon everyone went to sleep for these early hours and strenghtens mounting hunters tire one quickly. As soon as the monkeys rubbed they set about preparing food - and I must admit that we did too. We are just like animals - hunt at the early morning or evening, sleep in the middle of the day and eat as soon as we awake. I had a beautiful but unsuccess- fuful hunt with there. With the red man. He took me to the summit of a mountain where we could look down into a splendid valley on another side. There he pointed out the place where he had shot a bear three weeks before and we saw a good deal of fresh bear sign on the hillside which he said two or more made by the claws of the one he had killed.