FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



hereabouts ; only three days before, they had paid a visit to Tdki 

 and carried off a resident as a shive. 



From Teki we rejoined the caravan near a hamlet whence 

 the inhabitants issued with lances and seized our mules by the 

 bridle, but it was only with kindly intent. Farther on we came 

 across an ill-looking company in a wood armed with bows and 

 arrows. Our tent that nij^ln was pitched under a larc^e walnut-tree 



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'I'linciU ]!c(l iiLiir Ttki. 



in which were stuck small white Hags, a religious custom common 

 in Thibet. Hard by was the village of Toti, which the Loutses 

 had raided only the day before, capturing two men and a horse. 



"Eagle Beak" announced to us that the inhabitants of this 

 Toti were He-Lissous, and consequently his kinsfolk. We 

 thought this circumstance would procure us a dance in the even- 

 ing, but found instead that they were far from being well dis- 



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