In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . also, and,like all savages, they have a craving forliquor. The interior of Raot habitationswas so primitive and lacking of furniturethat it hardly requires to be described,and the odors that emanated from thesehuts are also better left to the imagina-tion of the reader. Entering one of the dwellings, I foundsquatted round a fire of wood somew^omen and men, the women wearing silver bangles andglass-bead necklaces, the men very little more than stringear-rings. Only one of the men had on as much as a di-minutive loin-cloth, and the wome
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . also, and,like all savages, they have a craving forliquor. The interior of Raot habitationswas so primitive and lacking of furniturethat it hardly requires to be described,and the odors that emanated from thesehuts are also better left to the imagina-tion of the reader. Entering one of the dwellings, I foundsquatted round a fire of wood somew^omen and men, the women wearing silver bangles andglass-bead necklaces, the men very little more than stringear-rings. Only one of the men had on as much as a di-minutive loin-cloth, and the women had scanty dressesof Indian manufacture, obtained in Askote. Scanning their features carefully, it struck me that intheir facial lines many points could be traced which wouldmake one feel inclined to attribute to them a remote Mon-golian origin, modified largely by the climate, the natureof the country, and probably by intermarriage. In thescale of standard human races the Raots stood extremelylow, as can be judged from the accompanying photographs. 24. A YOUNG MAN RAOT FEATURES The women, as will be seen, had abnormally small skullswith low foreheads, but, although they looked devoid evenof a glint of reason, they were actually fairly had high cheek-bones and long, flattish noses, broadand rounded as in the Mongolian type. The chin w^as inmost instances round, very receding, though the lipswere in their normal position, thin, and very tightlyclosed with up-turned corners to the mouth. The low-er jaw was extremely short and narrow, whereas theupper one seemed quite out of proportion to the sizeof the skiill. Their ears were large, outstanding, andunmodelled, capable of catching sounds at great dis-tances. The men had better heads than the women, under-developed, yet comparatively well-balanced. They hadhigher and broader foreheads, similar though shorternoses, chins not quite so receding, the whole lower jawextraordinarily narrow, but the upper lip, as with t
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