Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi (find matches)
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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fully making away from. They informed us that we were a days journey from Pasa-guk, where I had encamped the year before, and three short marches from Saka-dzong. It was hazardous to pass so near a governors residence. Abdul Kerim bought one of the riders horses for 100 rupees. This day I put on for the first time a new Ladaki costume. The other was too warm, and, being red, was conspicuous among the others. The new coat was made of worn, tattered sackcloth, and was stained with ashes and soot. In this I looked just like the other men. Now I painted my face regularly every day, and he must be a very smart fellow who could find out that I was not a genuine Ladaki. We had hitherto got on remarkably well, and had only a days journey to a place where I had been the year before. But the nervous tension increased more and more, and I wondered every morning what surprises the new day had in store for us. April 19. As we were starting, two men passed on foot, driving before them 200 sheep laden with salt. Our
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329 326. Sonam Ngurbu, Chief of the Chokchu Province. 327. Uoklhk I.-^uen,Governor of the Saka Province. 328. Man with a Singular Cap, in Sonam Ngurbus Escort. 329. Tagla Tsering, the Chief who refused to LET ME GO to THE DaNGRA-YUM-TSO. Sketches by the Author. Lxvi IN THE ROBBERS PARADISE 335 way was the same as theirs and we had to pass them. While I drove our own sheep down the road, Abdul Kerim stopped and talked with the men, to draw off their attention; but we could see that they were interested in our strange party, and looked closely at us. I Hmped, thinking that the Tibetans had never seen a lame European, if they had seen any European at all. But the people had seen me in Pasa-guk and Saka-dzong the year before, and then I did not halt. I had come off well from our troublesome neighbours and also past the large yak caravan, which a couple of days ago had turned off another way but had now come into ours again. We met a large sheep caravan with amounted party; a woman was said to be t

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