Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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126 the hunt was on seemed almost too good the true. It was dark long before we got in bed and the hunters ateers were very late with the skinning meat. Mr took only the fillets, as usual, and the hunters made a good thing from selling the meat to the villagers. Tues Mr. 11 We hunted rapidly all next day. The herd had gone into the hills far down the valley & we could not find them Wed. Mr. 12 a mile or two from camp. so we went after sheep and thems near the entrance of the run tar har valley, I found nine sheep feeding on the banks of a deep valley. It would have been a perfect place to stalk them had the wind not been wrong. As it was they smelled us & when we came near them there they had run out.