A Rare Sheep. 



at the Ovis animon, I should have to trek on with all possible 

 speed. 



I therefore decided to move the next day and work through 

 the sheep country, which would in the evening bring me to the 

 western shores of the Ebi Nor, where I hoped to find the rest of 

 my caravan. 



It froze hard during the night but was warmer on the morning 

 of the 26th, so I started off through the hills, sending the baggage 

 by a more direct route, but all we came across were some old 

 horns, one pair measuring 40 inches, which Gindan assured me 



THE EBI NOR LAKE, WHERE I FOUND WILD HORSES. 



was a good head. From here we worked on through innumerable 

 little valleys and ravines, the country being much broken, a sea 

 of hillocks, all with the same desolate appearance, on the eastern 

 side of which we debouched on to the shores of the Ebi Nor Lake, 

 and then marched round to its western extremity where I found 

 the caravan had already arrived, having secured fresh ponies. 



The Mongols called this part of the district Kizil Tus, and its 

 principal characteristics were flat stretches covered \vith long 

 grass in the central parts, and boggy and swampy near the lake 

 shores. 



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