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A TlBKTAN MASTIFF 



This red-e3'ed, lion-like animal is very wild and hard to tame. The dog has to be bought 

 together with the keeper, since no other person dares to feed and deal with it 



public property in Tibet and eat and sleep 

 where they please. 



Another mode of disposing of the dead 

 is by throwing the corpse into the sacred 

 river. The most extraordinary thing 

 about this custom is that after the body 

 has been thrown into the river it is taken 



out by some one else, who waits farther 

 down the stream. The dead body is then 

 cut to pieces ; the thigh bones are used 

 to make trumpets and eating bowls (see 

 page 992) and drums are made of the 

 skull. The beads of rosaries are also 

 made of human bones. ' 



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