Hunting at High Altitudes 



gardener, while above all glaciers and snow-fields 

 glisten in the sun. 



At the end of the next day's march, we sent back 

 the wagons to Naryn Kul, as the Agoyas, one of 

 the numerous rivers running into the Tekkes, was 

 impassable for them; and for the next four days 

 we traveled eastward down the valley with our 

 stuff loaded on bullocks, getting fresh ones each 

 morning, as well as fresh ponies, so that we could 

 make long marches, not having to think about our 

 animals. 



The usual plan was to send, ahead to the next 

 village an orderly, or jigit, who would have two 

 yuartas awaiting us thus saving pitching our 

 tents with a sheep neatly butchered for our use 

 and fresh transport for the next day. The usual 

 price was twenty-five cents a day for each animal, 

 including the wages of the men. 



In describing the yuartas and people I cannot 

 do better than quote William de Rubenquis, a 

 monk, who visited Tartary in 1253, and who in 

 his report to St. Louis of France wrote as follows : 

 "They have no settled habitation, neither know 

 they to-day where they shall lodge to-morrow. 

 Each of their captains, according to the number of 

 his people, knows the boundary of his pasture and 

 where he ought to feed his cattle, summer and 



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