Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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find at impossible ranges and draw a blank. Just on this way home his hunter had seen a large white ram, which was age carrying his enormous pair of horns climbing to a mid-side they had followed it to the summit only to lose it in to gathering darkness. I did not go over to where Harry had killed his sheep for it was already 10 o'clock and if I expected to get a ram it was high time to be about my days work. Mr climbed to the top point peak, after downingly glanced at the lower ridges off with lift, and there found a trail which led about along the mt side of just below the crest. It I am hour and kept on, stopping now then to scan the passes ravines & valleys which radiated outward in all directions. At half past eleven as we rounded a broad rocky shoulder I saw four sheep feeding in the bottom of a gorge far below me. In an instant my hunter & I dropped behind a crest a watch them. They see quite our conscious of our presence they were worked out of the ravine across a low ridge & into a deep gorge where the grass still showed a tinge of green. so we last modifed and over thridge