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Noskoff was a ferocious man as shown by the name the Mongols gave him 'Satan. He used to have his Mongol debtors beaten or imprisoned through the instrumentality of the Chinese authorities.
The car pulled up with a jerk. The General jumped out and called me to follow. We started walking over the prairie and the Baron kept bending down all the time as though he were looking for something on the ground. "Ah!" he murmured at last, "He has gone away. . . ." I looked at him in amazement. "A rich Mongol formerly had his yurta here. He was the outfitter for the Russian merchant, Noskoff.
He ruined this Mongol, who lost everything and escaped to a place thirty miles away; but Noskoff found him there, took all that he had left of cattle and horses and left the Mongol and his family to die of hunger. When I captured Urga, this Mongol appeared and brought with him thirty other Mongol families similarly ruined by Noskoff. They demanded his death. . . . So I hung 'Satan' . . ."
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