After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . PUNISHING A KALMUK. 88 AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI agreed that he was by far the keenest and cleverestof them all. Poor little fellow, I have lately heardthat he died soon after we left. He was as sharpas a monkey, and kept urging us to take him toEurope, where I am afraid he would have become. ;om kosh-a<;ai a dreadful scoundrel, though in his own sphere hewas well enough, and at times witty and spoke a few words of English, which he usedto pronounce with his native accent, and nothing wasmore funny than to hear him go through his
After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . PUNISHING A KALMUK. 88 AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI agreed that he was by far the keenest and cleverestof them all. Poor little fellow, I have lately heardthat he died soon after we left. He was as sharpas a monkey, and kept urging us to take him toEurope, where I am afraid he would have become. ;om kosh-a<;ai a dreadful scoundrel, though in his own sphere hewas well enough, and at times witty and spoke a few words of English, which he usedto pronounce with his native accent, and nothing wasmore funny than to hear him go through his shortvocabulary of the Anglo-Saxon dialect. Towards DUCK SHOOTING 89 evening Littledale and I went out after ducks, andbrought back half a dozen Eared Grebes and acouple of Geese. There were said to be Antelopes(A. gittturosa) on the steppe, but we saw none. Onour way back, however, we came across large herds,and shot a few. We settled for the prices withour friend the Zaissan, allowing each man a roublea day with the promise of a small present at the endof the journey. As for the ponies, we agreed at therate of 100 roubles for ten horses a month. Theyall seemed quite content with this bargain, and wedecided to set forth on the following morning,Zaissan Semion accompanying us to our first shootingcamp at two days march from Kosh-Agat
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