The next thrill was the arri of three scientists intent on measuring Tibetan skulls, and the high mountain in Eastern Tibet. The way these fellows turned down 9 promising skull was really remark able.
For the privilege of having his skull placed among the Brachycephalics or the Dolichocephalies each individual having a piece of ossified cartilage above his shoulders received the sum of five A fellow comes in wearing Tibetan dress, speaking the Tibetan age, and claiming Tibet The scientists axle him, Tibetan?" "Yes." Were your Tibetan?" "Yes." Were you born in Tibet? "Yes" (One scientist looks at the other) "I don't believe a word he says"—and as a compensation fo not having his Lony frame measured, he poor fellow is rewarded with tw9 and a half cents ard allowed to re main in the awful uncertainty of his unknown and undetermined descent.
One poor fellow who had his skult measured was accused of being a Lolo and an onlooker fas threatened 'a cracked skull if he persisted in maintaining the point. Is ther any difference between Chinese-Tibetan skull and a Tibetan or Chinese skull? If so what and where is the difference! One individual with bridgeless nose showed up and declared himself a Tibetan—two and half cents—nd the next skull was called in. And so the measurements went down, and by and by we shall have the scientific results and the Tibetan skull may be definitely placed among' the skulls that walk] about in Lamaland.
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