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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: said he had heard how wellwe had treated his brother, and offered us his services—fora good reward, of course. As he had travelled severaltimes through this region, quite unknown to Europeans,and was acquainted with all the passes, roads, and valleys,I thought he would be very valuable to me, and I proposedto give him 7 rupees a day, that is about half a monthspay of one of my Ladakis. Of course he accepted theterms at once and soon became our intimate friend. But these business matters were not yet settled. Theman had a quantity of sheep and barley. He consentedto let us eight sheep on hire, and sell us their loads, whichwould last our horses for a week. He was to receive arupee for the hire of each sheep, which was high, for asheep is worth only 2 to 3 rupees. The old man wouldtherefore receive 18 rupees every evening as long as hewas with us ; but it was cheap after all, for the discoveryof the source of the Indus was involved. The large sheep-caravan had already started on Sep-

Text Appearing After Image: THE SOURCE OF THE INDUS 21 I tember lo, when we, with our new guide, whose own tsambawas carried on a ninth sheep, followed in its track. Afteran hours march we crossed a tributary, the Lungdep-chu,which comes from a valley in the south-east, with flattishmountains in the background. A little farther up the Singi-kamba expands into a basincontaining an abundance of medium-sized fish. As wepassed, the fish were darting upstream in compact shoals,and passed a very shallow place with slight swirls. HereRabsang attacked them, but all his catch was only onesmall miserable fish. Then we threw up a dam by thebank, with an opening on one side, and the men went intothe water and drove in the fish with shouts and splashing.Then the entrance was built up. After we had repeatedthis diversion three times, we had procured thirty-sevenfine fish, and I was eager for my dinner, which I usuallylooked forward to with some loathing, for the hard driedmutton had become thoroughly distasteful to me. Our ol

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