Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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how today we might have needed meat. When I looked again at the sheep it lay lying down squarely in its trail easily raising its head now then it looked around. The hunter inspected it then my glasses and prepared to go. Marvelled over the ridge until well driven in its fibre side, then hurried around to the projecting spur at the end of which the young one was lying. It was: the going was very bad indeed, Precisely as I grasped were continually crumbling under foot and at times we had a cling down like flies & a sheer wall of rock with a sheer drop of hundreds of feet below us. Twice the dog had cautiously passed by, looked & looked over the ridge but each time shrunk this head I maintained he would follow further. At last he took a quick blink & turned me to slide up beside them. Pushing my rifle over the rock before me I raised myself at tremendous rate & head of the same a hundred fifty feet away. Its body was behind a spur of rock but it was looking squarely & in a second would be off. I was perfectly cool & remembered first how & then at the very end