Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Trekki Swiss dogs 21 in obtaining them I also lost the fat tail with speckle ears. The latter he says is an esteemed foot delicacy in Padding - worth 3 per sausage! and it was a most remarkably looking object. In due P. M. the young hunters who the morning had gone off to hunt by themselves returned empty handed. The young fellow was made even faster because he said they had found a bear & he had badly wounded it. His gun jammed on the next shot and the berrard had escaped. I spent a night at a salt lick just on the valley meadow outside the camp but nothing came to sight's the night before a big maphile had been there ased dug up its ground. The animals just sorta, not salt, in the licks - A mat that has been dry amid its grass 40 feet away from its lick, a framework of sticks built for a genrest and it's while concealed in grass and bushes. I put myself with my four sleeping bag and watched all night. It was an intense sky and the valley was as dark and silent as a tomb. There were none of the usual night sounds - not even the note of a sleepy bird. Strangely enough there are remarkably