Identifier: adventuresporttr00fergrich (find matches)
Title: Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fergusson, W. N Brooke, John Weston, l880-l908
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Oh ! said the emissary, but a Chinesewoman is not like our women, they stay in the house andhave small feet, so that they cannot walk. One of our womenwould go with you, carry your load, cook your food and doall kinds of work. Again assuring him that this was notnecessary, I gratefully dismissed him. When we arose next morning we found the ula had at lastarrived, and, while the yakmen were packing the things onthe yak, Brooke and I went up to say good-bye and seehow the patient was progressing. As soon as we entered theroom he sprang out of bed, and, with the aid of his stick,walked around the room almost in an upright position. We were almost as delighted as he was at this sudden re-covery. The Prince called for paper and ink, and wrote downthe foreign names of the remedies used, using the Tibetancharacter, and then wrote down my name and address atChentu. 198 In the Land of the Cattle Thieves. We got a photograph of the huge mastiff kept to guard thepalace, and then said good-bye.
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THK (lUARD ON THE ROOF—TIUETAN MASTIFF. Three months later tlie Prince sent some of his people alltheway to Chentu, twenty daysjourney, with presents to me, 199 Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. and a message that he had quite recovered, and that I waswelcome to his State whenever I chose again to visit him. When all was packed we set out to visit the famous robberdistrict of Yukoh. The only name that is written on ourmaps to convey any idea of what that stretch of country islike is the word Goluk or Robbers, while on many mapsit is left entirely blank. The inhabitants are known to theChinese as the great cattle thieves, and many of the neigh-bouring tribes fear these pillagers. The Prince of Yukohis married to a sister of the Prince of Chosschia, and the Yukohprinces brother is married to the sister of the Prince ofGaishechia, and by means of these marriage ties they tryto hve at peace with each other ; but despite this bond ofmarriage the herdsmen of the different States of

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