The other group under Colonel Jukoff perished.

He met a big detachment of Red cavalry and was defeated by them in two fights.

Only two officers escaped.

They related to me this sad news and the details of the fights when we met four months later in Urga.
Our band of eighteen riders with five packhorses moved up the valley of the Buret Hei.

We floundered in the swamps, passed innumerable miry streams, were frozen by the cold winds and were soaked through by the snow and sleet; but we persisted indefatigably toward the south end of Kosogol.