Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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96 had been joined by another man and horns [illegible] ionsize. for half an hour we waited them while the refugees anchored. The sheep were standing almost on the very crest of a ridge across the river, moving a few steps now and then but going far from where I first discovered them I saw that soon they would disappear and in less than they disappeared half an hour they filed down still into the valley. Then we, two, went down crossed along ridge to the river's edge. ascended decidedly The climb up the other side was pretty stiff and there was nearly an hour before we were joining into the ravine where the sheep had disappeared. They were not then in the hunter said that he came either up or down the valley; he could not tell which way. we went up first, but no sheep. Then we crossed to the ridge where she had first the argali and cautiously looked over a ledge of rocks. There they were, about 3 or 40s below, but we in the alert for they had seen Tonis hunter who had carelessly reposed himself on the crest of the ridge.