VIIL.—Digestive Organs of the Lam:
Existence of the Tibetan Nomad: Strange Methods' of, Wegdinig a Barley Field Diet of Raw Yak Beef From Our Own Tachienlu Muju-lies in the centre of charming valley. Down the valley flows a fairly large river, along the banks of which may be seen numerous water mills. "At the upper end of the valley could be, seen an immense range of snow mountains, -part no doubt of sus great Gong-ga range now our left. "A day spent at "Mun enabled us: to see a considerable number of people and attend quite few who were sick. -Most of those praying lamas.
There is considerable -pastural' bemorong tig floger jerop being barley, as in every jin: this part of Tibet. "The barley. {from which the nomads-make thelt' tsamba is grown in very" poor, colt Jand requires' very little attetition, Poor Farmers The Tibetans are very poor farmers, sporadic in their efforts, and fromadie in-their methods. The men Ido very little work in the fields, leav-who came to us for medicine were|ing almost entirely t mundane! suffering from stomach troubles. rvice to their industrious wame The Tibetans suffer a good deal tk. We saw a couple of women' from digestive disorders, caused cle wring the weeds from afield.' largely by the kind of food they They had a heavy wooden frame feat. Tsamba and buttered-tea are Jfrom which protruded iron spikes no doubt nutritious and in a coun-five or six inches long. This they try like Tibet a most convenient. [pulled from one end of the field to food, but their persistent monotony the other and when he told them. must surely paralyse the palate and they were pulling: up the young incline the nomad to long for barley as well ay the weeds, they stopped their pulling for some time To be abl to tell with mathe.
Jand started planting the young bar-magical precision what the lama will ley out again, Again they started feat on July 27 and on Ocotber 10, Jéragging the saw spiked frame, and how much he will eat, is all the and: when " they right as far as Hamblin' Smith reached the end of it they had-a. is concerned; but it gives the mass of. young barley and weeds tan' priest no end of in-under it. We supposed their fa.
in. The manner in which. thers had done this before them, they brew their Chinese tea mili-Iso why change?
It is interesting, tates against peace and order infit not exch 10 five or six the digestive region. Getting value for their money may be one inventive the Tibetans have for boiling tea till it is black. What. might be a light delicious beverage becomes a black insipid soup. 'This, consumed in large quantity four' times every day and 365 days every year and covering 2 period of time 50 years in length leaves the unfortunate nomad with, digestive organs demanding a de-ided chang
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