Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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81 without a stop for rest, at last we reached the beginning of the uplands, were were circling a grassy hillside just below the summit when three splendid rocks deer jumped to their feet and stood looking at us not 100 feet away. Then with a smart the three bucks dashed down the slope o of the other side. Hardly had they they had not yet disappeared when two others crowded into the bottom of the draw. It was a sore temptation to let them go but my old hunter had his hand up in my arm for fear I would readily shoot. Crossing the summit trip ups hill we sat down for a look around. Almost instantly 3 Before us that nearly a mile away lay three shallow grass filled valley dropped steeply down from the rolling uplands. Almost instantly only glasses caught the moving forms of three sheep in the bottom of the central valley. "Pan young" I said to the Pan young "Yes yes, I see them" he answered "we has very big horns" He was quite right for its largest carried a splendid head + its others was by no means small. The third was a tiny ewer