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late Lama, executed in flik, but both the form of the per fan and 

 the countenance announced more of the female than of the other fex* 

 This chara&er I have remarked to have prevailed in every portrait of 

 the many different Lamas which I have feen, and, were it not that 

 no mention has been made of this perfonage having been emafculated, 

 I really fhould have imagined this to have happened. However, taken 

 out of the hands of his parents in infancy, educated in the entire fub- 

 jeelion of the paffion of fex, and kept in a ftate of little lefs than entire 

 confinement, with full feeding/ o it is not furp riling, that the features of the 

 face fhould have little of the virile character, and that the whole con- 

 tour of the body fhould contract .a feminine foftnefs undiftjnguifhed 

 by the bold variety of fwell and fall belonging, to a mufcular frame ac« 



cuftomed to exercife. , .,...., 



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At 3985 paces reach, two piles of flones, the uppermoft of which 



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were engraved with a character, that, appears different from that in 



common ufe, and appropriated, I prefume, to religious purpofes. The 



valley here narrows and is bounded by mountains, whofe tops are more 



or lefs covered with inow, and it takes a winding direction to the 



kit. At 5407 , paces arrive at our ground of. encampment near fame 



tents, and a confiderable herd of yaks with a flock of the fineft 



iheep I have feen in Tatary. — Pleafed with the profpecl; of having my 

 choicefrom amon^il the bed collection of cattle of every kind I had 



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feen, I rambled through the whole, and made choice qf feveral female 



yaks and> calves as alio of young goats, which however were not equal 



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in quality, to the yaks and fheep.. 



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The horfemen,rwkom. I difcovered too late to be intoxicated, faid 

 that thev had no orders to allow me to pick out of the flock; but 



veould fend for vntdruclions on that point. 



