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bring ourselves to partake of these unwholesome 

 looking delicacies, we always did our best for fear 

 of offending our hosts. The one thing that I could 

 not accustom myself to was mare's milk, though 

 Warrington always managed a good big bowl of it ; 

 while Larson thought as much of it as the Mongols 

 themselves did. Mare's milk is thicker than 

 cow's milk and has a sour taste even when quite 

 fresh. It is just as though some citric acid were 

 put into ordinary milk. This milk is very much 

 more sustaining than cow's milk, it being possible 

 for a man to subsist on it entirely, at the same 

 time doing a strenuous day's work. We were told 

 that the Mongol cavalrymen, when on service, 

 used mares and could live entirely upon their 

 milk. If this be true one can readily see how use- 

 ful they could become in military operations in 

 such a country as Mongolia. 



All the Mongols in this district live in tents, 

 which they move from time to time within a 

 prescribed area. They often stay two, three or 

 even eight years in the same spot. Their tents 

 consist of wooden skeletons, the sides of which 

 take the form of circular trellis work fences cap- 

 able of being extended or drawn in, and the roofs 

 of which resemble nothing so much as the frame- 

 work and ribs of an immense umbrella. Over the 

 whole sheets of wool felt are laid and tied in place 

 by horse-hair ropes. These tents are capable of 

 resisting very severe weather and extremely low 



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