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256 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
honest fellow possessed an old muzzle-loading musket, fired
from a forked support, and on the strength of it he was
ambitious to be taken for a great hunter ; but during the
14 months he had been with us nobody had ever seen him
injure so much as a hare. Everybody believed, therefore,
that he did not know how to shoot, and, consequently, it
occasioned no surprise, when one fine day he sold the
weapon for an old song to Li Loyeh, in whose hands it was
Kh(xlai Kullu and his Wild Camel.
equally harmless. The year before, when Khodai Kullu
returned to headquarters at Yanghi-kol, he boasted to the
other men that he had shot a wild camel at Altimish-bulak.
He was now cornered by his comrades, who mockingly
begged him to be so kind as to show them the victim’s bones.
Khodai Kullu was evidently in a quandary, and excused him-
self by saying that it vv^as not at Altimish-bulak, but at
another spring in the neighbourhood that he had shot the
camel. Yet nobod}^ would believe him, and the other
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