Chapter 11

MONGOLS AT HOME

The forests of Mongolia--A bad day's work--The Terelche River--Tserin Dorchy's family--A wild-wood romance--Evening in the valley--Doctoring the natives--A clever lama--A popular magazine--Return of Tserin Dorchy--Independence--His hunt on the Sacred Mountain--Punishment--Hunting with the Mongols--Tsamba and "buttered tea"--A splendid roebuck--The fortune of a naturalist--Eating the deer's viscera--The field meet of the Terelche Valley--Horse races--Wrestling 143