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visitor to America just as baffled by the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. i
A trip into the country takes us to an encampment of horse, cattle, and sheep herders. The staple foods seem to be milk from mares, cows and sheep, cheese made from it, other milk products, bread, horse meat, beef and mutton. Although the mare’s milk is sour and fermented (a delicacy called kumiss) the other items we are offered are slightly sweet.
A1J around us are people living in gers, known to us as yurts—round structures of latticed wood and poles covered with felt and supplied with a gaily painted wooden door. Light enters the ger through the south facing door when it is open, or through a circular, spoked wooden ceiling piece where a stove pipe emerges and which can be covered with a felt flap to keep out rain. We are told two men can erect one of these collapsible homes in a couple of hours.
We don’t see chickens or cats, but there are a few working dogs. One woman is pounding natural wool into felt. The felt covering of the ger is topped with white canvas which has probably been water-proofed in some way. These white coverings stand out on the green pastures, ere
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