Word: urga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once, at Urga, Mongolia," said Frau lein Stinnes, "we had to pay 140 marks ($336) for 106 litres of gasoline (28 gallons)." From San Francisco petite Motorist Stinnes proposed to sail for Valparaiso, Chile, whence she will motor northward to Washington, D. C., and thence proceed home to Berlin...
...objectives after Moscow, were Omsk, Tomsk, and Urga and then across Mongolia to Kilgan and Peking...
...ought to make good time- say 30 days to Urga-and if I am caught, that will be six months of Siberian exile, that...
...home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands and soaked ropes to make them cut deeper. The Mongols explained they had never heard of America and were going to kill Messrs...
...fossils lying in one of the globe's most desolate wildernesses. Travelers said that no fleet of Dodge, or any other, cars could go where even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews...