Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Emge was unders, the sun well might freeze when we turned back along another ridge which running off to the north, would bring us back to camp. On the way we separated and in minutes afterward Harry this young man I hunted sent up a goral which he killed after shooting it three times. I accidentally learned how much goring a goral needs for I believe it can carry as more lead than any other hoofed animal of its size. Sunday Oct. 19 We railed today for it was another cold raw morning and failed to settle where we would camp permanently. We had planned a partition tents in the courtyard of a half ruined temple at the base of the white trail but the question of fuel was a difficult one to solve. I had asked me had been told in the village that we could buy plenty of wood and no problem where to earth it came from for the mountains we had seen no signpost of anything resembling even a bush. When I asked for have a load of wood sent to us, he discovered that the word 'concrete' is busy