Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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the nuts. But before we had finished with that trail I wished we had gone the other way for slipping over morasses and sliding into the water in the dark because lost all its fascination before we reached camp at 9 P.M. But, however, to my heart was light & I would gladly have spent the night out in the nuts if it had been necessary to get the rand. Harry was beginning to be very wonder- when I reached the village. After bringing in his sheep he had walked over to a beautiful temple 4 miles away killed 8 hares. The skins of this ram & the rabbits were spread for inspection on the floor of our room, when he had killed a really mag- ificent specimen with larger horns than mine; I afterwards found them to be a record in circumference being 19 3/4" at the base 47" long. A Mr. Surrency had recorded the previous record as 19 1/2 " on a head which he pointed up for at this same place 5 or 6 yrs ago. As I struggled into other parts of my sleeping bag that night, it seemed to me that it had been one of the most satisfactory hunting days of my entire life, not only was my hand a magnificent splendid trophy but others and others were captured from the bushes.