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extinct since the Soviet Government is becoming popular in Outer Mongolia.  One night, a few years ago I was sitting in my tent,when an old prince came in, the poor chap looked out of luck.  He told me that the Government had taken away all his gold bars and silver dollars, his thousands of sheep, camels,oxen, ponies and all other property and had left him one tent, two ponies, some sheep and a camelcart.  They had put him in jail for not paying taxes.  Now they had discovered, that he still had $10,000 [[strikethrough]] .-. [[/strikethorugh]] invested in a Chinese firm and to-morrow he would have to ^[[go to]] jail for another 6 months.After a short talk he left.  The next morning I heard that he was dead.  Per=haps the idea of spending another 6 months in jail had broken his heart.  Another acquaintance of mine invited me to his house in Tse=tsenhan together with a friend of mine.  The place was packed with curios.  What surprised me were a couple of oilpaintings, hung on the wall showing a view of the river Alster in Hamburg with some ladies in a rowboat with leg-of-mutton sleeves.  I asked him, how he got all these curios and Chinese porcelain and he told me, that his ancestors before him had every year sent tribute of camels,ponies,sheep and oxen to the Emperor in Peking and as counter-presents they had received received these curios. I had admired some beautiful porcelain vases and my friend some silver inlaid rifles.  When we left, the prince presented me with the vases and my friend received a Mongolian arch and arrows.  He was blaming himself for not admiring some vases as well, for he did not know what to do with the old arch and arrows.  The Princes were held in very high esteem in former days.  I took this [[underlined]] prince and his wife and his pet Llama [[/underlined]] from Urga to Tsetsenhan once.  A short distance from Urga I noticed, that all the time some Mongols with big teacans were following us on horseback from the nearest jurtas.  As soon as a Mongol came near to the next jurta, another came to take his place and the first Mongol rode back.  So they took it in turns.  I asked what it was all about and was told, that the district which we were passing through belonged to the prince and that the Mon=gols en route followed him with hot tea, in case he would get t^[[h]]irsty