Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Tuesday June 17 At this camp we saw several gibbons Cittulas go with long tails, ones which I had obtained on the way up. They appeared about 5 miles before we reached this camp (i.e. 20 mi from Shiga). They entered for about 1 mi more further up then we saw no more. It looks as if they occupied a very restricted area. They don't live in villages but are seen there all singly at considerable distances from each other. We had a magnificent day with a brilliant sun and light breeze which kept it from being too warm. I saw hundreds of mannikins but my sights were so bad that I got none. It does not seem to be able to get the rifle to shooting accurately. Now it with a bad ray mannikin! At two o'clock we climbed over the last long hill and came up on the plateau proper. From its summit, perhaps we could see half a dozen pools of water flashing in the sunlight and away to the right turked away among the hills lay a little temple surrounded by a cluster of yamuts while in the distance looked like giant be hives. Our range rode ahead I learned that this was its last water for 35 miles, so purpose we camped as far and as the plain, away from the yamuts. It was a beautiful spot with the hills rolling away on either side of us and the