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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: searches for suspectedlodgers in his sheepskin. I drew several of them without exciting the leastuneasiness ; on the contrary, they made a joke of thesitting, and laughed heartily when they saw their counter-feits, which they embellished with prints of their butteryfingers on the margin. They asked me why I drew them,and for what purpose I wished to know their names andages. They were all sympathetic, polite, and friendly, andI enjoyed their society (lllusts. 193, 194). A begging lama, too, looked in ; he was on the way toKailas, and was quickly sketched, to the intense amuse-ment of the other men. He bore a lance with a blacktassel and red strips, a timbrel, an antelope horn to protecthimself against snappy dogs, and a trombone of humanbone, which he set in a corner of his mouth when he blewit. It caused him much amusement to be the object ofuniversal attention, and he took advantage of it to makeacquaintance with the nomads with a view to an appeal totheir liberality (Illust. 195).

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