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by another proclamation issued in April. I also heard of Blakiston’s 
party which I was told had been turned back from the Thibet 
frontier. 
It was awfully cold in Thibet in October, and I did not go very 
far, as I had a very bad set of Bhootiah servants with me. I spent 
the twenty days principally in shooting, though I frequently could 
not go out on account of the cold-cutting wind. It was always 
freezing day and night, and I was snowed up in my tent for two 
days, and on the 20th October, the morning before I crossed the 
pass on my return, the thermometer outside my tent was 3° below 
zero : next morning 4° above zero : I had some first-rate sport, kill- 
ing altogether fifty-three head of large game in two months eleven 
days ; two wild yak bulls, four Oves Ammon, twenty burral, twenty- 
one thar, three musk deer, &c., &c. I had great difficulty in getting 
Bhootiahs to go with me on account of the cold, and they were all 
busy and preparing to go down to the plains with their borax, &c. 
and I had no one with me who could prepare heads and skins well. 
One of my baggage animals fell off a bridge into the Doulee, and 
neither it nor the load it carried was ever seen again. On one side 
was a wild yak skin, and on the other all my bedding and clothes ; 
everything was lost except what I had on at the time. I managed 
to buy some second-hand blankets, &c. and a native comb.” 
