Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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use with assuming clothes of civilization. He would be even more as greatly surprised. Ordinarily if these garments representing the party of the community, were heaping bowls of cheese cut into tiny squares, The spectators who between the two ended from a yellow flag fluttered fairly from a tall staff. The spectators had consisted of two groups of women of half dozen each who sat in comfort means their but horns almost interlaced. Every one was dressed in festive costumes and it would be impossible to describe the costumes alike, they all followed the usual nymph feminine attire. Sure enough, wives and other girls were there of course. The young ladies I -- -- passed looking very much dressed up in their peaked hats. Why the two groups of women should have been so exclusive and kept so com- petely themselves, I cannot imagine for they sat a long distance apart and had no more intercourse with each other than as that they were not speak- ing terms. The first race was by about a dozen jumping boys boys from 14 to 16 yrs of age. And came up the field they swept by me on their way to the starting line, each one yelling in a --