Copyrigh, 1828, AN rights of reproduction, trantlelion "and adaptation reserved for eouniries, including Hellend end Scondinatia, Vi.—The Ever-Present Danger of Discovery So many alarms have upset -us since we have entered the forbidden fand that we ought to become ac-¢ustomed to them. We ought to Ye, perhaps, but we are not, and continually on the alert proves most trying to our nerves.
Once, when washing our marmite we were drinking tea a few soldiers of a frontier post came with some peasants to look at us, and L heard again some women ex. pressing doubts about my Mongo-Tian origin~at that time I called myself a Mongolian, Women were] the cleverest to detect the smallest detail, in my appearance, that did sot seem quite Tibetan," We had come to be rather bold before men but we really dreaded these cunning, ersplcactous country females who iad_always some remarks to ai Yongden cursed them ten times a day.
We were far from being in a cheerful mind, that morning, when beginning the ascent of a path that Jed upward to the ridge that wel had to cross, We had just learned that " Lhasa official was living in house near our road. Had we Orce more we had succeeded, But we were far from having exhausted this kind of trial.
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