Jack Weatherford
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which is used for several purposes among the Mongols.
It's used for signals, for one thing, from one person to another.
But also when you're hunting, if you want to move the animal in a certain direction, you send a whistling arrow in the opposite direction to make the animal move.
So it had a lot of uses.
So the boys had exchanged roebuck knuckles.
This time they exchanged, and so they had been close friends.
And Bang Han said, okay, Jamukha should raise some troops and go with you.
And he did.
So the three set out.
Some troops from Wang Han.
He himself did not go.
He was too old.
But he sent some troops.
And then Jamukha and his troops.
And then basically just Temujin and his family.
He just had his brothers.
That's all.
They set off.
to find the Merkit people up the Seleng River, which flows into Siberia and on into Lake Baikal.
They had to go through some extremely rough territory.