Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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hollows them separated, Harry put on over the uplands while my hunter swung sharply to the east along the summit of a ridge, still hunting for the same he had seen --- before. He It had a hard climb but saw no deer. On from the summit of a knife like ridge I dropped a stone into a deep ravine and out leaped that roebuck which had been feeding directly beneath me point of right. I snapped at the buck as he disappeared around a corner of rock but missed. It was a great surprise to me to find roebuck in country such as this where there is no cover of any kind, in Korea and Burma where I have hunted them they have never been far away from heavy point but here exactly the habits of the Virginia deer at home. But here they frequent the bottoms of the deep ravines when there is not a bush area 2 feet in height. They seem have totally changed their mode of living partially having gradually adapted themselves to the decreasing forest.