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===Diet=== The caravan people's food was mostly based around [[oat]] and [[millet]] flour, with some animal fat. A sheep would be bought from the Mongols and slaughtered every now and then, and tea was the usual daily drink; as fresh vegetables were scarce, [[scurvy]] was a danger.<ref name=drt/> Besides the paid cargo and the food and gear for the men, the camels would also carry a fair amount of [[fodder]] for themselves (typically, dried [[peas]] when going west, and [[barley]] when going east, those being the cheapest types of camel feed in Hohhot and Gucheng, respectively). It was estimated that, when leaving its point of origin, for every 100 loads of merchandise the caravan would carry around 30 loads of fodder. When that was not enough (especially in winter) more fodder could be bought (very expensively) from dealers who would come to the caravan route's popular stopping places from the populated areas of Gansu or Ningxia to the south.<ref>Lattimore (1928/9), p. 74</ref>
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