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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 Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: re, but never anything as furious as to-day.We envy the monks up above with firm ground undertheir feet, and should like to be beside them. The loghas been out all the time, and now I draw it in with aquick pull and call out to the men to be ready to jumpoverboard when I give the sign. I place the note-bookand the map I have sketched to-day, all dripping withwater, into the front of my leather vest, that at any rateI may not lose the figures I have obtained. We have only a few minutes more. With the help ofShukkur Ali I manage to get out of my heavy soakedboots, and have scarcely done so when the boat is pitchedviolently into the breakers on the shore. Here the wateris as brown as oatmeal, and the undertow sucks out theboat again. Now Tundup Sonam wishes to jump out ofthe boat but I advise him to try first with the oar if hecan reach the bottom ; he feels no ground and has to waitpatiently. The boat receives a blow from behind andthreatens to capsize ; the oarsmen work as if they were

Text Appearing After Image: 254- Lama with Prayer-Drum.

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