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ADVENTURES IN NORTHERN TIBET. 235
to carry my boxes of instruments. Our baggage consisted
principally of flour, rice, maize, and talkan (roasted flour),
with tents, clothes, cooking utensils, spades, axes, buckets,
etc., etc. However, we had no mishap, and the two or
three extra men we took with us were soon able to
return.
Our one dromedary was an untameable beast. The
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Glen Leading up to the Pass of the Akato-tagh.
froth hung round his lips like soapsuds, and kept dropping
in big clots to the ground. One of his fore-legs was tied
fast to his pack-saddle in such a way that, while it was no
hindrance whatever to his walking, it effectually prevented
him from running. He was fastened to his immediate pre-
decessor in the string by a chain, so that he was unable to
attack his neighbours, which it was his one constant aim
and desire to do. Besides this, he was muzzled, to prevent
him from biting. All the same, he was a magniiicent
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