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CHAPTER XXVIII.
STOPPED BY TIBETAN CAVALRY.
We started again with the object of advancing south by
the west shore of the SelHng-tso, and were closely followed
by the Tibetans, between sixty and seventy in number.
The old chieftain still continued to overwhelm me with
entreaties to stop. Then he threatened that we should be
met by a large army of men. I answered, that he might
gather ten thousand men, but we should not stop until we
were really forced. Thereupon with a gesture of despair,
as though he gave it up as a bad job, he turned and went
away to his own tent, and soon afterwards the whole troop
disappeared. It was quite a relief to be left in peace from
them.
Another river of pure bright water empties itself into the
Selling-tso from the west ; but we forded it without diffi-
culty. As its waters swarmed with gulls, we inferred that
they contained fish. Wild-duck also were plentiful, and
the Cossacks shot some for our cooking-pots. We could not
go past such splendid camping-ground as that, and accord-
ingly we pitched the tents on the right bank of the stream,
near the point where it enters the lake.
Hardly were we settled down, when we saw the black
troops of the Tibetans coming galloping down from the hills
on the north, bringing with them a number of baggage-
horses. They had only retired to replenish their stores. On
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