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324 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
thorough inspection of the whole of the caravan. Hamra
Kul, the superintendent of the horses, was seriously ill,
so I gave him a dose of quinine and allowed him a horse
to ride on. When crossing the Arka-tagh, all the Mussul-
mans had been reduced to travelling on foot, because we
wanted the horses to carry the loads of the camels that
we had lost.
My favourite nag, a handsome, good-tempered beast,
came now on the sick list. Shereb Lama, like most of
the Lamaist priests, was also a clever medicine-man, and
carried amongst his baggage a chest filled with more or
less well-proved drugs. He now offered to cure my horse,
and proceeded to open the veins in both its fore-legs ;
then he bandaged them up, and himself carefully led the
animal the next stage. That evening, amid the pelting
hail-storm with which Midsummer Day celebrated its
close, the Lama continued his treatment by bleeding the
horse again, and giving him a long foot-bath in the nearest
brook. There must have been something in this primitive
method of cure, for the horse was better, and soon began
to eat, and munched away the whole evening at his maize,
or rather at his maize and rice, for of the latter we had
such a large supply that we were able to spare some even
for the horses.
During the last days of June the ground was pretty
favourable, and the weather good. The highest pass
reached, however, an altitude of 17,510 feet ; nevertheless,
the whole caravan surmounted it in safety, although
five camels turned queer and had to be relieved of their
loads.
It now became a regular rule for my medicine chest to
appear at every camp. Several patients came com-
plaining of headache ; 1 gave each of them an antipyrin
powder, and they were of course better almost before
they had got it down—imagination goes a long way with
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