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young with bulls or yaks, best produce with yaks. Elevation of 

 shoulder less than in the yak. Hair long but less so than the yaks. 



Look — sheep, four principal varieties; 1st, Chang Look, or 

 Northern sheep, very large with fine wool. Elocks of 400 to 1000 

 tended by one man ; — 2nd, Sok Look, rare, but greatly prized ; it is a 

 doomba or heavy-tailed sheep, comes from the province of Sok situ- 

 ated to the east of Lassa ; wool not very fine ; — 3rd, Lho Look, a 

 very small sheep indeed, generally white, sometimes black, is bred 

 principally about Lassa ; wool very fine and like the shawl wool ; — 

 4th, Changumpo Look ; abundant about Geroo and in Dingcham, 

 generally very large. I never saw finer sheep in my life than all 

 these were ; white wool very fine and soft. The flesh of all the 

 Thibet sheep is fine-grained and good. 



JPeu Ba — Thibet goat, small, hairy, of all colours. Has an under 

 coat of fine wool, similar to the shawl wool, but there is no shawl 

 wool trade from Eastern Thibet to India at present. Elesh pretty 

 good. 



PhdTc — pig, two varieties. The Lho Phak or southern pig which 

 is most abundant to the south of Lassa, and is described as similar 

 to the Indian village pig, and the small China pig now abundant in 

 Lassa and other towns : no wild hogs anywhere in Thibet. The 

 Chinese butchers in Lassa blow their pork and take in the country 

 folks greatly by its fine appearance. 



Cha — common fowl, generally small in Thibet, and there is no 

 large kind as in Sikim where the fowls are remarkably large. 



Damjha — ducks. Not eaten by the Thibetans, but greatly priz- 

 led by the Chinese, for whose use only they are bred near and in 

 Lassa. 



Damjha Cheemoo — goose. Not eaten by the Thibetans, but 

 much liked by the Chinese. 



Gang Sir, Gung Kur, Chaloong, Toong Toong — Comprise the nume- 

 rous wild fowl, swimmers and waders, which migrate from India in 

 March and April, and return in October and November ; they are all 

 eaten, but not extensively. There is a sort of prejudice against 

 killing them ; but as they all breed on the lakes and rivers of the 

 country and are most numerous, the eggs are found in great quan- 

 tities, the people who live by gathering and selling these eggs never 



