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412 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
point, nor during the day did it rise above 50°. Autumn
had begun ;
yet how httle did we reahse the terrible winter
that lay ahead ? Camping-grounds both old and new
were numerous everywhere, nevertheless there was still
an abundance of game, especially of yaks, wild sheep and
hares, and as we approached the camp I have just
mentioned a troop of fifty kulans drew away from it.
The men shot two Bttinek goats, and a beautiful little
A Frozen Deer and Goat.
yurch antelope. In the evening the Cossacks fixed them
up with the help of sticks and string against two or three
packages, in the attitudes the creatures adopt when
leaping, and in the morning they were frozen stiff and
stood of themselves. This was done to give me an oppor-
tunity to photograph them. Every night the mountains
around echoed with the dismal howling of the Vv^olves.
Eagles were also numerous. We found quite a colony on
the shore of a little lake. The young were not yet fledged.
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