In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . the animal to our next camp,where we proposed to feast on it. The Brahmaputra had here several ramifications, most-ly ending in lakelets, and rendering the plain a regularswamp. The larger branch was very wide and deep, andwe preferred following it to crossing it, notwithstandingthat we had to deviate somewhat from the course whichI would have otherwise followed. We thus made a con-siderable detour, but as it was, even for several miles wesank in mud up to our knees, or waded through water,out of which rose small patches of earth with
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . the animal to our next camp,where we proposed to feast on it. The Brahmaputra had here several ramifications, most-ly ending in lakelets, and rendering the plain a regularswamp. The larger branch was very wide and deep, andwe preferred following it to crossing it, notwithstandingthat we had to deviate somewhat from the course whichI would have otherwise followed. We thus made a con-siderable detour, but as it was, even for several miles wesank in mud up to our knees, or waded through water,out of which rose small patches of earth with tufts ofgrass that collapsed on our attempting to stand upon them. The whole of the northern part of the plain was ex-tremely marshy. Our yaks gave us no end of trouble, 78 SINKING IN MUD for when they sank unexpectedly in soft mud-holes, theybecame restless and alarmed, and i-n their struggles tosave themselves, once or twice shook off their pack-sad-dles and loads, which we had not been able to fastenproperly for want of ropes. Chanden Sing and I, how-. OUR YAKS SINKING IN MUD ever, to keep up with them, and at last, on near-ing the hills, the ground showed greater undulations andwas rather drier. We saw columns of smoke rising fromnear the foot of the range to the north of us. We wenton another couple of miles, exhausted and dirty, ourclothes, which we had spent so much soap and time inwashing, filthy with splashes of mud. Where is Mansing ? and the rabbu ?^ I asked of mybearer. *The Tibetans have three distinct kinds of goats—the rabbii, or largewoolly animal, such as the one I had purchased ; the ratto7i, or small goat;IL—G IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND He remained behind at the beginning of the was too exhausted to drag along the goat you pur-chased. I was much concerned, on scouting the country allround from a hillock with my telescope, to see no signsof the poor fellow, and I was angry with myself for not
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