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STOPPED BY TIBETAN CAVALRY. 435
tents were already up. We had 5, the Tibetans 19 ;
they numbered 194 men, we only 18—i agamst 10, or, if
I count the Cossacks only, i against 50.
Truly a remarkable lake—the Nakktsong-tso ! It is like
a ring of water, all the middle being occupied by a large
island. It suggested a crater-lake or a fortress with a moat
round it filled with water. The Tibetan emissaries had been
greatly concerned at my disappearance ; but by means of
mounted patrols, they convinced themselves that I had
not run away.
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