Chapter 12

NOMADS OF THE FOREST

An ideal camp--The first wapiti--A roebuck--Currants and berries--Catching fish--Enormous trout--A rainy day in camp--A wapiti seen from camp--Mongolian weather--Flowers-- Beautiful country--A musk deer--Habits and commercial value--A wild boar--Success and failure in hunting--We kill two wapiti--Return to Urga--Mr. and Mrs. MacCallie--Packing the collections--Across the plains to Peking 161