Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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We knew that the procession was approaching because suddenly many of the inn's shopkeepers began to prepare their tables in front of their doors waving offerings of food & incense. Tom first came a squad of cavalry with rifles reversed. Then the Trumpet band playing a funeral dirge. Then capability + a half dozen people dressed in white & newlows. These how there'd a car at the cable of Grouper's as they parted. As days came the coffins arrived in a chair being an arranged photographs of the dead Trachums - then another chair in which was a white robe. The bus supposed to carry the spirit of the dead man to the place of burial. It was a solemn impres- sion sight particularly when regarded the way in which the man had died. The procession went on me at the station when a body car had been prepared to