TOUR IN MONGOLIA - PART II

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CHAPTER The

"

THE

VI

best riders have the hardest falls

'

—Chinese proverb

people in the neighbourhood of Ta-Bol

and I was frequently invited to go and have a chat in the various yourts. To persuade one inside and therefore to be at close enough quarters to enjoy a thorough inspection of the foreigner's clothes,

were quite a

hair,

friendly lot,

was a source of much the younger women, and

"light eyes," etc.,

enjoyment to some of

turning a blind eye, that sine qua non of

all

good

and disorder, I managed less normal conditions, which one seldom succeeds in doing when journeying with a definite goal and object. In some of the yourts, each one, it seemed to me, dirtier than the last, were delightful babies, confiding little creatures who had never known harshness, some of whom wore really beautiful charms of jade and lumps of amber round their brown necks, which nothing could induce the mothers to travellers,

upon the

dirt

to see the people under

sell,

little

more or

for fear of jeopardising the fortunes of their

ones.

From what

I

saw

of them, both in

the north as well as in the south, 85

I

came

to the


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