Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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To make them happy, and I have devoted many of them for real or fancied ills. Could I have really been able to bed, P. D's little daughter that had a bad case of - typhoid - whose zine treatment speedily cured. And my spirit has since never- fully affected by bruises & gunning for several attacks of fever. It supposes they are grateful, also we can never tell. They accept us all without a word of thanks other than 'sai', but their cordial acceptance of us as members of the community - is probably their way of expressing thanks. When the last wrestling match had ended the sports were over. At all things raised its flag, leading a procession of all the male population of the valley who rode in a circle about the seated Tawas, giving faster & faster with their barns and air canal galleys. Then all adjourned to the front of Mt. by the rebent men of the valley where a feast had been prepared. I was invited to attend but knowing from experience of Oriental feasts that the food would be ineatable & the drink worse, I begged to be excused and started home. But before left the old