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Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi (find matches)
Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n the names and approximate positions. The trafficis now much less, but still numerous manis and otherreligious symbols stand beside the solitary path. We ride along the steep slopes of the right bank ;below us the river forms rapids, and the way is dangerous,especially with a horse that is not sure on its feet.Roberts small bay filly stumbled and fell, so that the riderwas thrown headlong to the ground. Had he rolled downthe slope he would have been lost; but fortunately hefell towards the mountain. We encamped in the village Langmar, consisting ofa few scattered houses, at the entrance of the small sidevalley Langmar-pu. We still have hired horses, and now yaks also, and thecaravan is divided into the same detachments as before.Sonam Tsering and Guffaru command their sections.Tserings party sets out last and is the last to come torest, and Muhamed Isa supervises the whole. In theevening he is massaged by two men selected for thepurpose, of whom Rehim AH is one. There is still chang.
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■^/ #;•. $ CH. XXXVI OVER THE CHANG-LA-POD-LA 13 the harmless, but still intoxicating, beer. Among thesingers at the camp-fires, Tsering, as usual, deserves thefirst prize. He gives me no end of amusement; he singslike a cow, or at best like a burst temple drum. His voicecracks continually, and he loses the time and the melodywithout being the least put out. But he considers hissinging very fine, and the others take pleasure in it; onecan tell from a distance that the tears are coming into hiseyes. Sometimes he pauses to explain the subject of theballad and take a drink, and then he goes on again. Whenall the others are asleep, and all is so quiet in the campthat the rushing of the stream is audible and from timeto time the bark of a dog, Tserings rough voice trillingharshly still resounds among the mountains. Next day we draw near to the main crest of theTrans-Himalaya, for to my great surprise and delightwe have been conducted in this direction. Granite stillpredominates, and in

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