Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . seated. We found that our escort had arrived late the eveningbefore, and had been attacked by the great ferocious dogs keptto guard these tents. One of the escort had been badly tornby one of these dogs, and I made shift to dress twenty-eightnasty wounds, some of them on his face, others on his arms,hands and legs. This occupied nearly two hours. Next theChiefs son, a lad of fifteen, was brought with a bad foot, andwhen he was attended to we were urged to pitch our tentsand spend the rest of the day with our friends. The whole encampment gat
Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . seated. We found that our escort had arrived late the eveningbefore, and had been attacked by the great ferocious dogs keptto guard these tents. One of the escort had been badly tornby one of these dogs, and I made shift to dress twenty-eightnasty wounds, some of them on his face, others on his arms,hands and legs. This occupied nearly two hours. Next theChiefs son, a lad of fifteen, was brought with a bad foot, andwhen he was attended to we were urged to pitch our tentsand spend the rest of the day with our friends. The whole encampment gathered about and lent a hand. sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. and in a very short time all our ula was unpacked, our tenterected, and we were led off to visit the Chief in his was nothing to distinguish this from any of the others,only it was pitched almost in the centre of the it had more comfort in the way of rugs and cookingutensils ; but they all ate the same kind of food and hvedpractically in the same KlNCIi S BROTHER—YAK IN l-OREGKOUND. In the evening quite 5,000 head of yak, sheep and horseswere driven in. There was no enclosure, but the yak weretethered to long hues made of yak hair and pinned to theground. The sheep gathered toward the centre of the en-campment, and at dark the dogs were let loose. They scam-pered round the outside of the camps, kept the herds to-gether, and kept off wild animals from the flock. All night In the Land of the Cattle Thieves. long the deep baying of these ferocious brutes resounded inthe still night air, and warned the stranger that the safestplace was inside his tent. On several occasions a pack ofdogs came so close to our tent that we thought they weregoing to attack it, but they scampered off again withoutharming us. Next morning we set out for the capital, which we foundto be quite thirty miles further on. We tramped up to thewatershed, between the head-waters of the Kwanyin, and thestream
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