Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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I would have been 'all in' if it had not been for those two names upon the bushes - the first after big fellow which was waiting for us at the river. disaster when we got to the village. I was hungry enough to eat chips for I had had only apples since a bit of it was there at night; but down for one moment believe that I am the type of tanker who boasts that 'I never bother about tiffin. I never think about it.' When I hear that from a man, I mean ally shut him down as one who has not hurled very much. Several times I have been out with one of these men who 'never think about tiffin' and have usually found that when I sit down to eat my biscuits, dried fruit sweet chocolate, he looks at it so anxiously that I divide with him if he salvages even the crumbs of the larger half. On this particular day we had left camp in rather a hurry; I had forgotten to put anything except the apples in my pocket. Harry had limped into camp just after dark and had met two guests who were having affecting Commander [illegible] Huthinks, and Naval Attatch of the Air Station Major Austin Barker of the British Army whom we had been expecting for some short time.