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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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Rindor and Oang Gye on mats on thefloor, and all four played at dice. The two dice were shakenin a wooden bowl, and turned out on to a round pieceof skin. The markers were small Indian snailshells.Then they played with Chinese dominoes. Meanwhilethey drank tea, smoked pipes, sang, joked, laughed, andmoved the bricks with wonderful and graceful dexterity.Ngavang won ten tengas and was greatly elated. In thisway they pass the time when the days work is done.Rindor is the Governors private secretary, and on a benchand a table lay piles of documents and letters, written oncoarse Chinese paper, and folded up one on another. TheGovernors correspondence now comes to Semoku, and hisdaily work must run its course. His province, Saka, isvery extensive, and he states with some pride that hispower stretches to Sangsang in the east, to the Nevu-lam the south, to the Marium-la in the west, and northwardssome days journey beyond Kamba Tsenams tent. 1 he illustrious gentlemen were much amused with my
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J44i 345. Soldiers of the Garrison of Saka-dzoxg, belonging to our Escort.346. Armed Tibetan from the Country between the Teri-nam-tso and theDangra-yum-tso. 347. Boy with Small Gun on the Southern Shore of theTeri-nam-tso. Lxviii THE GOVERNOR OF SAKA 361 costume. You are a Sahib, they said ; you were forsix weeks the guest of the Tashi Lama; you employ onecaravan after another, and leave a quantity of moneybehind you, and yet are dressed more shabbily than anyof your servants. At night their horses and mules were driven to thestation-house by soldiers, and we ought to have taken thesame precaution, for our horses were attacked by wolves.The brown horse we had bought two weeks before for100 rupees had his two right feet tied together lest heshould run away, and the wolves directed their attack onhim, as he could not escape, ate him up, and took thehead off with them. At any rate it was missing in themorning from the skeleton, which was pretty closelystripped. On April 29 we rode toget

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