CHAPTER VII.

MONGOLIA--_continued_.

Visitors at Mingan--Trading--Scene with a drunken Mongol-- Good horsemen--Bad on foot--Knowledge of money--Runaway pony--A polite shepherd--Gunshandak--Wild onions--Halt-- Expert butcher--Mongol sheep, extraordinary tails--A Mongol feast--Effects of diet--Taste for fat explained--Mongol fasts--Our cooking arrangements--Camel ailings--Maggots-- Rough treatment--Ponies falling off--Live in hopes--Dogs-- The harvest moon--Waiting for Kitat--Lamas and their inhabitants--Resume the march--Meet caravan--Stony roads--Disturbed sleep--Gurush--Negotiations at Kutul-usu-- Salt plains--Sporting lama--Ulan-Khada--Trees--Reach Tsagan-tuguruk--Lamas and black men--Small temple--Musical failure--Our new acquaintances--Horse-dealing--Greed of Mongols--Fond of drink--A theft--The incantation--Kitat returns--Camel lost--Vexatious delay--Start from Tsagan-tuguruk 102