Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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falls back upon the ground. In some villages on the way to Kent-hwa we saw threshing machines which were exceedingly highly effective. This whole country is a great agricultural region, wheat, oats, buckwheat, huling of potatoes being the chief crops. Cabbage vines & a few turnips are also grown. Back by our tents the cliffs rose in sheer walls for hundreds of feet and lunchers were always calling from some ledge or bowlder. What some excellent sport after we had made camp and also got a rabbit, a half mile up the valley there were many pheasants so we were settled in the center of a sportsman's paradise. I had a hard hunt after traplin but did not find an till late on the afternoon and did not get a shot. But we did see many roebucks all the time hunters did not want us to look any for fear of disturbing the big deer. And this day I think I alone saw as roebucks. Probably no one else saw sport in all things can be as we do, many deer of any kind as here. The reason is the unique unusual circumstances under which they live. The deer are all concentrated in the