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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: t in a saddle I shall come back.You can inform the Devashung at your leisure that theirExcellencies may look for more visits. They laughed pleasantly and looked at one another, asmuch as to say: If he likes to come back, he is welcomeas far as we are concerned. And my Ladakis laughedand were extremely astonished that our last day of freedomhad come to so peaceful and merry an ending. TheTibetans were exceedingly agreeable, polite, and gentle,and never uttered a hard or peevish word about the troublethat I had again brought upon them. And when the oldwool story, which Abdul Kerim a little while before hadtried to cram down their throats, was referred to, theylaughed heartily and thought that it was a grand device.They are so accustomed to lie themselves that they have agreat admiration for any one else who succeeds in deceivingthem. They thought it very wonderful that we had beenable to cross the whole country without detection, andbelieved that I must possess some mysterious powers of

Text Appearing After Image: Lxvii APRIL 24 351 which they knew nothing, and that they must be verycautious in dealing with me. The young official, who was named Rinche Dorche, butwas called Rindor, a contraction of the two names, wrote along letter to the Governor of Saka, saying that I was thesame Hedin Sahib who had been here the year before,that we had come to a friendly agreement to proceed toSemoku, that I did not wish to travel to Ladak but straightto India, and that Lien Darin alone was to decide on theroute. The letter was sealed, and despatched by a mountedcourier over the Kinchen-la. Then we talked and jested again, and before sunset wewere as intimate as though we had been friends from child-hood. We might have made an appointment to meet Inthis barren valley and been glad to have found one another.It was easy to understand that the Tibetans were pleased.They little thought when the sun rose that they wouldmake such a good catch before evening. The successfulissue of their mission would be of great ad

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