mongol ideas for dealing with limited food
 

......Also contributing to their smell might have been their diet, which at certain times of the year was mainly mare's milk. On marches when there wasn't time to milk, Mongol riders would open a vein in their horses' necks and drink the blood, either straight or from a pouch. Mongols were especially fond of fermented mare's milk, called kumis. Many Mongol nobles died young from drunkenness. After victories, Mongols sometimes celebrated by drinking kumis while sitting on benches made of planks tied to the backs of their prisoners.
Mongols also ate meat tenderized by being sat on beneath their saddles on long journeys; marmot steeped in sour milk; curds dried in the sun; roots, dogs, rats-almost anything, according to several observers. Marco Polo, who travelled among them in the years 1275-92, wrote that they ate hamsters, which were plentiful on the steppes. A Franciscan friar who in 1245 went to seek out the Great Khan in the hope of persuading him to become a Christian reported that, during a siege of a Chinese city, a Mongol army ran out of food and ate one of every ten of its own soldiers.........
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Re: mongol ideas for dealing with limited food
 

not exactly kosher are they...

Re: mongol ideas for dealing with limited food
 

As a serious investor in IVN I have learned more then I ever wanted to about Mongolia. Tonight I learned even more..lol
Now I see why they are making such fools of us western Investors.