Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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soundings; yet the evidence was thus before me. Mr sent his skin-shirt back to camp on the back of a bundle cutter who had joined us just before we killed the bull and ourselves continued to hunt. My magnificent confidence expected to find the cows in a ravine half a mile away, but she cover [illegible] nothing save three rockucks. Mr descended into the valley while Harry worked back along the crest of some precipitous cliffs. On the way he resembled a gride hut did not get it. All I saw several rockucks my hunter would not let me shoot for fear a distinctly other rapiti. Sunday Aug 3 I left the "Cam. Legatum" in the morning and moved camp to a better house in one of the villages just farther up the valley and nearer the rapiti could byest two miles. The village consisted of half a dozen huts, with the usual mark that threshing floor in front of each (for the wheat is pounded till the kernel have left the stalk and winnowed by the simple process of throwing it up into the air when a weak wind is blowing. The chaff is carried away [illegible]