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CHAPTER XXV.
PRISONERS !
On the 2nd August the elements were favourable, and it
did not rain ; but both our horses were foundered and two
of the mules had sore backs. After passing a solitary black
tent, with twenty yaks and 400 sheep, we came to a tea-
caravan encamped beside a spring. It consisted of 300
yaks in charge of 25 men, and the loads, which consisted
of cube tea sewed up in sackcloth, were stacked in a dozen
rows. Some of the men came forward to look at us. As
usual their first question was, " How many of you are
there ?
" Then they asked, what was the object of our
journey, where we came from, whether we had anything
to sell, and so forth. The men looked for all the world like
highway robbers. Many of them had their long black hair
gathered into two pigtails, and all had the upper part of
their brown body bare, their sheepskin coat being flung
back so that the sleeves trailed on the ground behind them,
while the coat itself was held fast by the belt round the
middle. They invited us to encamp beside them ; but we
preferred to proceed to m*ore open grazing-grounds which
we saw a little bit further on.
The next day was a rest day. At nine o’clock the yak-
caravan marched past m exemplary order. The animals
were divided into troops of 30 to 40, with two or three men
to look after each troop. The}^ drove and guided the yaks by
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