[Beasts Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski]@TWC D-Link bookBeasts Men and Gods CHAPTER XXVIII 10/17
On one occasion the soldiers captured the arsenal containing the weapons surrendered by the Chinese and carried them off to their barracks.
Drunkenness, gambling and fighting increased.
We foreigners, carefully watching events and in fear of a catastrophe, finally decided to leave Uliassutai, that caldron of passions, controversies and denunciations. We heard that the group of Poletika was also preparing to get out a few days later.
We foreigners separated into two parties, one traveling by the old caravan route across the Gobi considerably to the south of Urga to Kuku-Hoto or Kweihuacheng and Kalgan, and mine, consisting of my friend, two Polish soldiers and myself, heading for Urga via Zain Shabi, where Colonel Kazagrandi had asked me in a recent letter to meet him. Thus we left the Uliassutai where we had lived through so many exciting events. On the sixth day after our departure there arrived in the town the Mongol-Buriat detachment under the command of the Buriat Vandaloff and the Russian Captain Bezrodnoff.
Afterwards I met them in Zain Shabi.
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