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One Russian whom I knew was a veterinary.  He was put to jail one day and kept there for 3 months.  Nobody told him why.  Then he was told to get out and he told them, "now that the thing is over, you might just as well tell me why you put me in jail".  Then they told him, "you see, you were always too rough and excited with the Mongols and we t^[[h]]ought that putting you in jail for a few months would cool you off a bit and calm down your nerves".  But the end is not always like these instances.  I knew a well-educated man, who was born in Mongolia, was brought up in China and could speak 5 languages fluently.  He once travelled with me to Kalgan.  One fine day, when I got to Urga I was told that he had been arrested for being mixed up with some political affairs.  Months afterwards I saw him on a truck which brought prisoners from Urga to Werchne-Udinsk and when I happened to be in that place some months afterwards, I was told that he had been shot.  I always made it a point never to talk about politics, although very often I have been asked what my political views were.  I always told them, that I did not have any and that I had come to Mongolia to try to do some business and not to talk about politics, that was none of my business.  Although the Mongols and Buriats are strongly influenced by communistic ideas, they still stick a bit to their Buddist religion.  I once watched a Buriat military instructor saying his beads of his rosary in the evening.  I asked him, "How is that, you are a communistic instructor and still you are saying your prayers".  He was not a bit embarrassed but told me, "You never can tell, there may be something [[strikethrough]] in the [[/strikethrough]] after all in what the Llamas say, and better is better."

The Mongols are a very honest race.  Before the Government bank was established in Urga, we had to carry whatever money we needed to buy export goods with in silver dollars on our car.  The ordinary Dodge Touring cars are best suited for travelling in Mongolia.  An ordinary Touring car can carry a load of 20 passengers and their luggage.  Some years ago, the Kalgan agent sent a photo of a well