Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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66 and his young hunter [illegible] heading for a ravine which ran up little clefts, but a little to the left, while my orange [illegible] myself climbed to the crest halfway of a ridge. He had not been parted for more than fifteen minutes when Bang bang bang went Harry's rifle, 3 times in quick succession, the reports rolling from and the gorge in majestic drains of soundless [illegible] drawing them selves and countless echoes among the jagged rocks across the stream. A moment later my hunter made out three sheep scrambling over the crest of the ridge above where Harry stood but they were too far for many [illegible]. Then after an interval a voice fluted distinctly from out the canyon limit, "I've got a fine ram" it said, "a beauty" and I could hear the happy ring in it even at that distance. "Good for Harry" I think he certainly deserved it after his [illegible] last shot" for he had come his half dead only after dark. He had seen eight sheep, [illegible] an exciting chase but not being accustomed yet to the clear atmosphere he had