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like those outsiders all the time。”
Seeing that the women had unloaded the carts and dug paths to the deep snow by clearing out troughs the wolves had made when dragging the gazelle carcasses through the snow; and that they’d also built up a snowbank; Bilgee looked skyward and chanted something。 Chen Zhen guessed that he was asking Tengger for permission to go out in the snow and bring up the dead gazelles。
The old man closed his eyes briefly; then opened them again and said; “There are plenty of frozen gazelles at the bottom of the snow; so don’t get greedy。 When you’re out there; first free the surviving animals; all of them; before ing back to dig out the frozen ones。 Tengger didn’t want those animals to die; so we must save them。” He lowered his head and said to Chen Zhen and Yang Ke; “When Genghis Khan finished an encirclement hunt; he let a small number of animals go。
The Mongols have fought like that for centuries; and the reason we can have these hunts year after year is that; like the wolves; we don’t kill off all the prey。”
Bilgee assigned gazelle collection sectors to each family; then let them go off and work on their own。 Everyone followed hunting custom by leaving the nearest and most plentiful holes for the students and for Bilgee; who led Chen and Yang over to his cart; where they unloaded two large rolls of felt; each about two yards wide and four yards long。 They appeared to have been sprayed with water beforehand; for they were frozen stiff。 Chen and Yang each dragged one along the cleared path; while Bilgee carried a long birch club; tipped with a metal hook。 Batu and Gasmai also carried large rolls of felt to the deep snow; little Bayar walked behind his parents with a hook over his shoulder。
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