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inclination indeed I may call it the necessity for con- 

 stantly drawing a deep inspiration to fill the lungs, which I 

 have already mentioned. I made a wide dttour among the 

 undulating heights on the south side of the pass, where we 

 had seen the seven Oves Amman, rams previous to our first 

 crossing it. We found two flocks, one of nine ewes and the 

 other of six ewes, with five lambs at foot, which, of course, 

 were left unmolested. 



At Lookoong we stopped for two days to await the arrival 

 of Captain Basevi there, on his way to prosecute his pen- 

 dulum observations on the highly elevated table -lands in 

 Changchenmo. We took advantage of the halt to have a 

 general wash-up of our dirty clothes in the stream that 

 flowed past the tents, as also did old Changter to improve 

 his personal appearance. For this purpose he came and 

 borrowed one of the butcher -knives I used for skinning 

 animals, to cut his hair with. Being curious to see the 

 result of the process of hair -cutting with a knife, I was 

 selfish enough not to suggest to him the use of a large pair 

 of scissors I possessed. Some hours after, when he again 

 turned up, his head, except where grew his pigtail and a few 

 straggling locks beside it that had escaped the ravages of 

 the knife, resembled the half-shaved back of a hedgehog, 

 as likewise did his son Norgie's, upon which he had also 

 operated. 



Our men had caught a lot of excellent little trout-like fish 

 in the stream beside which we were camped, by driving them 

 under the banks and there "tickling" them. The largest 

 were about 8 inches long, dark brown above, golden below, 

 and had irregular black patch-like spots on their sides. We 

 had also shot one or two fine hares, which are plentiful in 

 many parts of Tibet. They weigh about 6 lb., and are not 

 unlike the blue hare of the Highlands of Scotland in their 

 habits and appearance, but a great deal more wild, and much 

 lighter in colour. With these luxuries, a bit of antelope- 



