Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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which are not nice, when wandering around the world but both Mac and I were found to risk at throught and the hurt of of this torture those poor watches are undergoing. These coffins men we were told could consider themselves lucky that their coffins allowed to remain out side in the open air. Some few grams of persons, some men are confined in similar coffins in a dungeon under the jail where in pitch darkness. Here they have to remain one or two years and in some cases for life. Even in winters the coffins are left outside in temperature which falls as low as -60 F. Of course, the minutes often die, but what matter! There are so many less charges for the guarders to attend to. The jail itself which is only a short distance almost the Ministry of War and Foreign affairs as a most awful looking structure from the out- surrounded by a high strokeary of sharp railings side, and if reports are true its interior of the devices for permanent whirls it contains are worthy its but efforts of Louis XI of France That charming king had cages, not decent ones, in which the prisoner could neither sit upright nor lie at length. Nor did he prefer in these confined himself to members of his justiced list of minerals could mediate upon their