In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . heir gesticula-tions, and I brusquely pushed by them and continued myconstitutional. When theysaw me depart they scurriedaway hastily tow^ards Garb-yang, and I gave the occur-rence no further thouQ;ht. Onmy return to the village, how-ever, some hours later, acrowd of Shokas came up tome announcing that my mon-ey had arrived, and that thescared messengers, not daringto come near me a secondtime, had gone to Dr. Wil-sons house. There I founda peon and two chaprassis,the three men I had met onthe road. They had broughta sum of eighteen h
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . heir gesticula-tions, and I brusquely pushed by them and continued myconstitutional. When theysaw me depart they scurriedaway hastily tow^ards Garb-yang, and I gave the occur-rence no further thouQ;ht. Onmy return to the village, how-ever, some hours later, acrowd of Shokas came up tome announcing that my mon-ey had arrived, and that thescared messengers, not daringto come near me a secondtime, had gone to Dr. Wil-sons house. There I founda peon and two chaprassis,the three men I had met onthe road. They had broughta sum of eighteen hundredrupees in silver, nearly all intwo-anna and four-anna pieces (sixteen annas to a rupee), which I had sent for frommy banker, Anti Ram Sah, at Almora, and which it hadtaken three men to carry, owing to its weight. After an easy explanation with these three very peace-ful highwaymen, the silver was conveyed to my room, andthe greater part of the night had to be spent in countingthe diminutive coins and packing them up in rolls of tenrupees each. 9 lOI. MY BANKER AND AGENT IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND Just below Garbyang in the Kali River were, among amass of others, two large rocks in the centre of thestream. These two rocks were constantly watched bythe Shokas. The Kali, though named after a smallspring below its real source, is, like most of its tributa-ries, mainly fed by melting snows. The greater quantityof water descends from the Jolinkan, the Lumpiya, theMangshan, the Lippu, and the Tinker passes. Tlie firstfour are in Kumaon, the last in Nepal. It stands to rea-son that the warmer the weather the greater is the quan-tity of snow melting on the passes, and therefore thehigher the level of the river. When the two rocks arealtogether under water all the passes are known to beopen.* During the time I was in Garbyang I never had theluck to see this, but the level of the river was daily rising,and the time of tiresome expectation was certainly relievedby many amusing and a few a
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