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i66 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
heaps of stones were built up for the purpose of guiding
travellers in a storm. Asiatics manifest a certain amount
of respect for their roads and tracks, and gratefully con-
sider it their duty, when passing, to add a stone or two to
each of these wayside mounds.
Our two little pups soon grew tired, and were then packed
away in a basket and covered over with felts. Yoldash
and Mashka were unable to endure the heat, and although
we gave them a drink of water occasionally, they kept
dropping behind incessantly. At length we neither heard
nor saw anything of them. Thereupon Shagdur rode back
and found them lying amongst the sand, which they had
scratched to one side, in the shade of a little clay terrace.
Yoldash at once rose and followed when Shagdur called
him, but Mashka refused to move. Shagdur thereupon put
him on the saddle in front of him ; but before he had got
very far the dog turned queer, and his head drooped limply
against the horse’s shoulder. The Cossack poured down
his throat the last few drops of water he had, but it was no
use ; the poor beast was already dead, and he left him
lying by the roadside. With the view of saving Yoldash,
we tied him, notwithstanding his desperate protests, on
the back of a camel and covered him over with a felt, and
there he lay and growled, and felt " awfully sea-sick."
The big caravan which preceded us to Mandarlik had
suffered greater losses amongst their dogs than we did,
for no less than eight either died on the way up or ran
av/ay back to the lakes.
Yes, it was a bad bit, this strip of desert that separated
us from the mountains ! But by the time the sun had
got over to the west we had reached our goal, after a tramp
of 14^ hours. We rested for a while in the first little glen
we came to, where there was a brook rippling amongst the
luxuriant grass. And you should just have seen Yoldash,
when he heard the water singing amongst the stones !
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