Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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84 You may wonder how he knew it. I can only answer that what that negro didn't know about the ways of sheep was not worth learning, as almost as far as he seemed to think as the sheep thought. Tutwull was a most intelligent and delightful comp-anion. His ready sympathy, his keen humor and his interest in the finest specimens of the animals I wanted entered him to me in a way which only a sportsman can understand. His Ghana dialect and my limited Mandarin made a curious combination of the Chinese language but we could always piece it out with signs. We never misunderstood each other as any important matter. I had many friendly differences of opinion about the way to conduct at talk, his child like glee when he was proved correct, was most refreshing.