Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Aug 16 About 10 days ago three famous ride into our camp and after we could not figure out from his English explanation what they wanted we did learn that a contri-bution would be acceptable. We supposed that it was some sort of religious use. many while we were invited to contribute to such as football it was good policy and to become a patron of the activities of the community during which we had cabin up our temporary dwelling. So I gave them some money. It was not until three days ago that we discovered what it really was all about. The hunters had told us that they must return for two days hence when we started out. So explained by saying "Young give Sarva money. Ride jump all dance Poling - This men catch hold each other fall down" By a flash of intuition I decided that our attempts not to rally were threw a field day; that there were to be pony races and wrestling contests. I was rather pleased with myself for during the day it became more and more evident that I had guessed correctly. In fact confident that whatever was to take place would be well worth seeing a photographing because no matter how an event itself insignificant the actual subject matter