In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . wo or three of the more attractive. Where is my book, Chanden Sing.^^ I inquired of mybearer. Hazur hum mallum nek. Sahib (I do not know,sir), was his melancholy answer as he searched his emptypockets. Ah! you villain! Is that the care you take of mynotes and sketches ? What have you done with them ? Oh, sahib, I drank some water at the Dholi River. Ihad the book then in my hand. I must have left it on astone when I stooped to drink water from the stream,the wretched man explained. It is hardly necessary to say that Chanden Sing waspr
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . wo or three of the more attractive. Where is my book, Chanden Sing.^^ I inquired of mybearer. Hazur hum mallum nek. Sahib (I do not know,sir), was his melancholy answer as he searched his emptypockets. Ah! you villain! Is that the care you take of mynotes and sketches ? What have you done with them ? Oh, sahib, I drank some water at the Dholi River. Ihad the book then in my hand. I must have left it on astone when I stooped to drink water from the stream,the wretched man explained. It is hardly necessary to say that Chanden Sing waspromptly despatched to the spot he had named, with strictorders not to appear before me again without the book. 47 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND I spent two or three pleasant hours in having the primi-tive Shoka weaving-looms, the processes of spinning andcloth manufacture, explained to me. As can be seenfrom the following illustration, the weaving-looms of theShokas are in every way similar to those used by theTibetans proper, and are quite simple in ^5 ^_ ^mr^mj:im_ SHOKA WEAVERS The warp is kept at great tension, and the cloth-beam onwhich the woven tissue is rolled rests on the womans lapduring the process of weaving. There are no treadles inthe Shoka loom, by which the two sets of warp threads arealternately raised or depressed between each time that thetransverse thread is passed, and all work is done by transverse thread is beaten firmly home by means ofa heavy prismatic piece of wood. The material used inweaving is yak, or sheeps wool, either in its natural coloror dyed in the primary colors of red and blue and yellow, 48 WEAVING OF THE SHOKAS and one secondary only, green. Blue and red are used inthe greater and equal proportion ; then green. Yellow isvery parsimoniously used. The thread is well twistedand is subjected to no preparation before spinning, leav-ing thus a certain greasiness in the closely woven materialthat renders it waterproof. Shoka women
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