FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



causes a species of tetanus, with foaming at the mouth and speedy 

 results. They have a prophecy that a chief shall come amongst 

 them from the west, who will have a long beard. In the early 

 days a missionary seemed to fulfil their expectation, and the first 

 Fathers were in consequence called Peula (gods). 



The occupations of the Christians are mainly agricultural, 

 cattle breeding, small industries, and hunting. They make butter 

 and cheese, finding the best milk-producer for dairy purposes to 

 be the dzomo, a cross between a yak cow and an ordinary bull. 

 One such will give nearly sixty lbs. of butter a year. The 

 young of the dzomo rarely lives, or, if it does, is generally puny. 

 To wean a calf the Thibetans have a method of fastening a board 

 across the nostrils, which, while allowing it to crop the grass, 

 prevents it from taking the udder. The calf is removed from its 

 mother at a month old, and is nourished for a while by the farm 

 wife, who masticates a sort of paste, which she then introduces 

 into its mouth in a manner more forcible than elegant. 



They also manufacture paper from the bark of a tree. After 

 a double soaking, first in plain and then in lime water, the bark 

 is reduced with a pestle to a pulp, which is again damped before 

 being placed in a tank with a framework bottom, in which the 

 substance settles, and when dry is turned out as paper. 



Another industry which flourishes in Tsekou is the carving 

 of drinking bowls out of the knots of certain trees, which, accord- 

 ing to their shape or the manner in which they are grained, are 

 highly valued as possessing a charm against a poisoned draught. 

 Some of these dzops, or knots, are worth fifty or sixty taels. 



One of the food resources of the mountain is wild honey, 



found in large quantities in crannies of the cliffs sheltered from 



the rain. To gather it the Lissous lower themselves by ropes, 



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