75 realize that I was an insignificant part of nature as really is. I have had it too amid vast mountains which have been toiling up a peak while stretched thousands of feet above me with others just as high rising their majestic forms on every side. Then nature seems almost alive a thing to be fought and conquered by brain and will! Another thing which we learned early in our life in the plains was how easy it is to lose one's way. Every rise looks exactly like the others and in all the vast sea of land there seems never a mark to serve as a guide. After a time, however, there comes to the land sense. The Mongols have it to an extraordinary degree. We could disp an antelope on the plains & leave it for an hour or two. With a quick glance around he would fix the spot in his mind by some marvellous instinct and dash off with us on a chase which might carry me back forth in circles toward every point of the compass. When it was time to return he would head unerringly for that single spot on the plain and take us back as straight as an arrow. At first he used to laugh at us when we were completely lost, but gradually we learned ourselves to note the sun & ground, taking a little rise of ground & act as guide. But only by years of training could one be hope