Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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an animal may be grazing and until one is actually in camp there is always the possibility of a shot. Many is the time I have ended a day with success within a few hundred yards of my tent simply because I never ceased to expect due hope that game might lie in every bit of cover. Each disappointment, Each animal missed seems to make me keener for the next hunt. There were some of the shots while filled my mind as we groped our way back to camp, thru the darkness of a rainy night. Then young hunter who had his labby use for he had seen 3 wolves or fired 4 shots at them without success, matte. Also just at dusk he had seen a doe & fawn with two fawns but all his squalling with a deal of grass between his wants that not hurt them near enough for a shot. Old Amurdoche can make an extraordinarily good imitation of a young deer's calls rather familiar and he always uses it to signal some when we are beyond each other's sight. The bucks are beginning to bark now and the sound is exactly like that of a dog with a cold. The animals