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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: inwhich he was checkmated in two moves. My merit wasas little now as formerly; I was always a marionette, andthe hands which held the strings hung over the pathswhere the clouds and stars move. In the evening I had a visit from Pemba Tsering andKamba Tsenam. The former was much more gentle andfriendly than the year before; the latter was a greathumorist, who did not seem at all annoyed that he hadomitted to close the bag when he had us in it, and had leta valuable booty fall into the hands of another. They hadheard of my adventurous voyages on Tso-mavang, andwere astonished that I had escaped with my life. Two short days marches took us over the pass Kule-la and down to the valley where Semoku stands on thegreat high-road. Here stood some scattered tents, and theGovernor and his colleagues had established themselves inthe small stone house of the station. All the more im-portant posts in Tibet are entrusted to two gentlemen :thus, for example, there are always two garpuns or viceroys

Text Appearing After Image: 341- Inner Court ok Selipuk.

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