The Dolan Expedition is not making tremendous progress geographic cally, From Litang (14000. ft) they sent dock twelve big boxes filled with valuable birds and skins; and they are hoping to send out some boxes from Batanz. Their stay in the latter place, however, has been 0 down to Menkong on the Salwen and had everything arranged to do so. But robbers were "thick and fast" andthe Incarnation who hited animals was not prepared take, risks, s0 the journey was called off. A few days later they planned to go north and here again a wild herd of Tibetans blocked the way. Some six Tibetan houses had foreed the precariously on the highway. Life in a border town like Batang is full of incident. A young lad of wealthy Tibetan parents one day went too far Ibeyond the outskirts of the city and was captured and held for ransom by the Tibetans who had their homes burned. Fortunately there is a Chinese wireless station in Batang 0 the culslde world can always hear the distressing news of th barrassed,
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