Note 5 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.

Perhaps it was as well that I had no malformation or physical peculiarity about me, for Prejevalsky relates his meeting a Mongolian who had seen but one Englishman in his life, who lived at Kiakhta, and who had, unfortunately, lost one of his legs, whereupon the man of the desert had come to the conclusion that all the English had wooden legs!