The wild ass from Tibetan hill country and a comet people of Tuchientu with exciting mom en route to Chengt and notoriety was gained among the boys by wiping the spittle -frqm their checks, A fire in Tachienlu always attracts a big crowd and #0 did Mandeville's skin boot built to carry Rubin and: a black bear to Shanghai, but this camel seems to have draged the city towards the east gate, The people, Chinese and Tibetan, poured In that direction all day. A toto in Chinese, an among in Tibetan and]
camel in English will occupy the nds of the population of Tachienlu for some days to come and no doubt! keep them from thinking of trouble fin other parts of the Republic.
A Broken Bubble The camel is part of what now must be termed a "burst advo When the panchen's expe bound for Lhasa, passed Amdo, a number" of camels were secured to move bay and baggage across the great Asiatic steppes. At! one time it was reported there wore! 400 camels in the caravan and 200 lad already" moved toward the suered capital, carrying good things to eat and nice things to wear. As the Panchen was moving, however, and with him an army of followers, a Jorge camel caravan seemed ne-assary, On former occasions the Lhasa Government would have provided yak for his Highness, but this time nothing was done, so the Panchen had to purchase camels to carry his enormous retinue into the Forbidden Land, The death of the Panchen at Jyekundo brought to a full stop the adventure which automatically: split up into its natural parts, relatives, lamas and Tibetan officials remain. ing with the body of the Panchen at Kanze, while the Chinese part of the expedition returned to China, It.is now reported ihat at least 1,000 people are making, or have made, their way to Tachienlu, being about two-thirds of the Panchen's following. And this enormous fole lowing has created quite a block in the ula system along the main, north, Lhiasa road, The Red Army which] invaded this part of the country in 1036 apparently ate up not only yak, but horses, sonkeys ant miles, Leaving the ula services almost without a beast of burden.
In yeu's gone by 1,000 animals like the Panchen's adventure, is something like a burst balloon, and! years will pass before it can' ade-Qeately function again.
Animals, unfortunately, take much longer to than ' cabbages, and more horses will have to be raised before the ula system can get back on to lis fect, What, Is taking place slong this great Tibetan highway is not dif cult to imagine: 50 riders with their hag and baggage arrive at Kanze and immediately make the foolish request to the local Chinese ma. Bistrate that they would like tog fon next day, as they promised thei waiting companions behind that they would release the animals for the Feturn journey os soon as possible.
The local magistrate informs the newcomers that 50 riders wilh thei telangings left only yesterday fo Lube and it will be some days before the animals return. And Ponchen's large retinue goes through this performance at Denko, Kanze, Lube, Dawe and Gat animals, yale and horses, carrying 30 members of caravan and the returning for other 50, tiM the to Chengtu provide the ents a they stopped over while poor creatures are near! done up. On occasions animals ca bbe hired, but they are very expensive. ravelling with a Family The Kanze postmaster arrived few days ago. He is blest with tom, Gage ing, the ermnnds ieae® reed ome "yak The two. laser children were put on the back of! tone yak:
two other children wer: put Inside boxes, and these were tied to a yak pack saddle.
"The postmaster packed the kiddies inside his garment, and_ the yak caravan moved slowly over th Sleppes towards Tachienlu, Travel in central Asia is pleasing feature: the caravan, somehow, sometime, reaches its des tination. _may be smashed, broken, battered, dislocated and every th! 4 go "east and west, but the travel: Ter has this satisfaction every time, that some day he will reach "home sweet home Lhasa road between Fortunately the north Derge Fachientu is fairly free from robbers, but this cannot the said of offer parts of Sikang.
Practically every other road is infested with robbers, making travelling some places almost an impossibility.
'Travelling in companionship with' the tall, stately camel were a wild mule and' wild horse.
Coming in the east ate this morning. after, on aval distribution of RIBS. litera strange Too ture. my wife saw a somewhat king animal_which looked portly like a horse and a mule. A Chinese soldier was having a rough time trying to hold on to the crea ture, The face of the animal wa certainly like a horse and yet the fall was distinctly that pf a mule. wit Chengtu Zoo We enquired about the beast end discovered it had come town with part of the - Panchen' retinue and was being taken Chengtu to the placed. in some z00 there, There was no doubt about it 1 what the people termed, emo or wild horse. great fun with the Chinese soldier!
pulling him all over the place. There was no evidence that the wild horse had been ridden or any at-was a wild mule, but a quite happy contented little' animal, evidently perfectly satisfied with its surroundings. These animals, the wild horse and the wild mule, were brought down from Jyekundo by some of the Panchen's followers. North of Jyeundo, and stretching up towards Kokonor. is a long, wide elt of country inhabltated Sy the wild yak, the wild ass and jwumerous other wild creatures.
Ernest Schafer, the young German hunter, connected with the Brooke Dolan expedition, hunted over this region in 1935, and shot on one oc~ casion a yak which weighed 3,000 catties. " From his report it appears that this is the natural habitat of many wild animals that can be do-masticated. Col. C. C. Ku, Chinese sportsman and big game hunter, has also been in this region, and shot humorous bear. Col. Ku again is in Sikang in connection with some government forestry scheme,
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