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west to south-east. Towards noon we reached the 

 river, at the place where it Hows between the two 

 lakes, and found it so wide and deep that the crossing 

 of it implied a still more serious undertaking than that 



OUR NEW DEMITCHA AND MEN. 



of the Tchagan-Kol. We therefore decided to pitch 

 camp on this side of the watercourse and hold a 

 debate in the afternoon on the dilemma which now 

 presented itself. The first question to elucidate was 

 the presence of wild sheep in those mountains, which 

 fact could only be ascertained from our new Mongol 



