Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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102 was digging a hole, and was hardly everal minutes when he escaped out about 40 yards away. My should have given him a name for it but he disappeared over a hill & we lost sight of him. Thursday July 1st Today we both remained six camps to give our horses a rest for they had had some hard days. I worked my suspicions and wrote all day. It was very hot at the same time cool under the shade of our blue fly, Our beds are not directly in the sun shake no matter how hot the sun is - certainly this is a country of weather extremes. There has hardly been a night wherein we could not have been comfortable in our fur bags and even then we have had to try to get with all our clothes on even did it as mild summer even. We sleep outside under the fly wherever it does not rain & always an is perfectly wonderful, as fresh as a drink of ice cold water & a thirsty man. Wed. July 2 Today I went out my pony with twenty ft in our white cart horse. Another manyl accompanied us to take what meat we did not want. I got an antelope out of there which we saw an hour after leaving camp, a river later I saw five & I hit two. Both had turksh legs - me a