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the Champas pay a tax to Lahsa for the privilege of 

 plundering. This party with their sheep were going to 

 Mangtza-tso (lake) for salt, ten days' march beyond the 

 border ; it is the lake that Carey passed on his journey 

 to Polu. The year before a party of Eupshii men, them- 

 selves nomads, were plundered as they were returning 

 from the lake by these robbers. The men who were now 

 going up came from Pobrang. They said they had no 

 arms, and offered no resistance to the Champas, who were 

 terrible fellows. The shepherds took all the meat of the 

 dead dong and buried it high up the hillside under large 

 rocks. They said they would return in about a month, 

 when they would take the flesh home ! 



I noted the temperature inside the tent during my stay 

 in the Laliing valley. At 9 r.M. the thermometer showed 

 46° ; at 6 a.m. 24° — a difference of 22° between evening 

 and morning. At 4 p.m. it was 66°, or an extreme 

 variation of 42° in the twenty-four hours. These figures 

 speak to the climate of these parts in the middle of August. 



Next morning we went up Kiamgo-Traggar in the 

 direction of I>anak-la, the travelling-path of Pocfhagus 

 (jmnniens when he is seeking pastures new. We reached 

 the opening of the Kaliing valley at nine o'clock, and at 

 the same time Paljour discovered the tracks of a large 

 donrf rjoino; in the same direction that we were. We 

 followed them for two hours, first down into the plain, 

 where there was water, then through grassy plots and over 

 stony plains. There were two, a large bull and a smaller 

 one. I gave up the search when the things came up ; but 

 Paljour followed the beasts up a small valley, and then 

 returned, saying the dong had gone up very high. We 

 proceeded farther to find a good place for camp, and when 

 turning a spur, Pamber, the boy, pointed out two black 

 spots near the sky-line, which the glasses soon resolved 



