Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes (1911) (14783624235)

Identifier: adventuresporttr00fergrich (find matches)
Title: Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fergusson, W. N Brooke, John Weston, l880-l908
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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continuing untilall the long hair is plucked out. The poor creature groansat every tug that is given, and it is no hght pull that extractsa handful of hair from these yak. At 5 oclock, in a pouringrain, we reached the capital of Yukoh State, and were almostcarried away while crossing the stream that flows past themonastery. At first we tried to secure lodgings in the monastery itselfbut did not succeed, so pitched our tents in the pouring rain,and made our beds on the wet grass. With great difficultywe secured some wood and cooked some food. We had noteaten anything since morning and had had a long march.A Lama, the Tussus brother, had gone up another ravineto bring word of our arrival to the Tussu, who was also outin a tent with his herds, so that we had no one to herald our 203 Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. arrival, and had to wait till late in the afternoon of the nextday before he arrived with ula to take us on. This Lama was a very sullen-lonking priest, and if it had
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RSE-MAID AND BABY. not been for the Gaishechia Tussu sending his brother along weshould not have fared so well as we did. We could do but httlehere, though we met people from other States who were friendly. 204 In the Land of the Cattle Thieves. The next morning we set out on a 30-mile march to Dawo,and pressed on over the same rolhng grass land. Some twomiles from the capital of Yiikoh we passed a hot spring wherethere was mixed bathing. On the opposite side of the streamwe saw a band of the famous cattle raiders, returning withtheir plunder of about 200 head of yak, which they wereforcing on at the point of their long lances. These wouldbe taken to the Tussus tent, and, after he had taken his shareof the booty, the raiders would be pardoned and the remainderof the plunder would be theirs. It is hard to imagine a more fiendish-looking lot of men thanthese nomads of the grassy slopes. According to the mapsthis country is all within the Szechuan province, but theChinese official has to