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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 bow! 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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