inst them made them smart. 1 been wearing shorts, perhaps a trifle too short, when—crossing the pass, and the reflected light} of the fierce sun on the glittering snow had scorched both my knees. causing great pain when anything touched them. I saw nothing but "a night of agony before me till we had melted some yak butter] and rubbed this on my knees, This gave considerable relief and took away the burning, stinging sensation. More yak butter rubbed fon in the morning removed the! cracked feeling from the skin and more application of Tibetan butter! during the day almost cured the sunburned legs. Weeks however elapsed before my legs were throughly well again. First one layer of skin came off and then: another and the Tibetans looking at} my knees thought I must be suffering great pain. Mounting} and dismounting from different} ponies frequently scratched knees and by the time we had travel. Jed two more weeks they presented very searred, torn, and dilapidated appearance. ' It was quite]
teresting to see how the nomads and flag showed their affection and regard and frequently _the headmen would ask if Thad any pain, Fortunately the knee. soaking in yak butter had removed lieu of taxes. The flag system still obtains ina large part of the Tibetan province of Kham, though in some places the Tibetans now refuse to give it, in this way claim. ing independence with the rest. of Tibetan from Manchu rule and! authority. In the districts adjacent to Szechuan and under Chinese! influence flag is still supplied and! Europeans travelling in those di tricts are allowed the use of flag by paying a nominal sum of 20 Mex, cents per animal per day. Tu a country like Tibet and a province like Kham and a people Tike the nomads and a religion like Lemaism, the system of flag, as we understand it, has been well devised and is" a geographic adaptation to Tibet, to Kham, to the nomad, and tothe Jama. In the Tibetan uplands nothing wil grow but nomads, grass, and cotte, and #0 much of theee three things is grown that the demand made for! lag in Tiew of taxes does not come heavy upon the people or at any time become a burden more than they can beat
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