"Notwithstanding the shortage of the food supply, which undoubtedly exists with the majority, many of those who have made their homes in this territory of undulating hills and fertile valleys, that forms a natural boundary between Siberia and Mongolia, are rich, for, as we sped along in the train we saw hundreds of head of horses and cattle grazing, and farm-houses apparently well-stocked with pigs, sheep and poultry, for in this district live well-to-do Buriats, who apparently have been left alone by both Whites and Reds, who in turn have devastated the country in their insane civil warfare during the past three years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.