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UP INTO DESOLxATE TIBET. 167
He pricked his ears, barked, and bit at everything he could
reach in his frantic efforts to get at liberty ; and no sooner
were he and his two younger playmates—the latter some-
what stiff and " groggy " on their feet—set down than
they plunged into the brook and began to lap up the water
with feverish haste. I confess it was a real pleasure to
see them. When they had drunk their fill, they stretched
themselves at full length in the water, and then went
The Docs Malenki and Malchik.
and had a good roll in the grass, and then back again
to drink. If only Mashka had been there to share it with
them !
We now made our way slowly up over the double range
of the Astyn-tagh, which forms a boundary wall between
the Central Asian desert and Tibet. Fresh air, bright
nights, an occasional light and welcome rain, no gadflies
—
how delightful it all was ! Upon reaching Temirlik, in the
broad vahey of Chimen, we were already 13,000 feet above
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