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“We were prepared for the worst: for a week’s, for a month’s delay. Actually we were there (the Naichi River) only three days. We got hold of a Mongol who had two camels of his own and scrounged another; and Li bought a she-camel in calf which he hoped to sell at a profit. Camels carry their calves for thirteen months; Li’s was four months gone, of dwarfish stature, and altogether ludicrous to look at.”