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462 ADVENTURES IN TIBET,
made doubly hideous by their deafening chorus. We
were now travelling beside the river Tsangar-shar, and on
the 26th took a day’s rest amongst some fine bushes.
Here one of our horses tumbled into the river, and was
only got out again with the utmost difficulty. But although
we dried him beside a big fire, and wrapped him in felt
rugs, he died a couple of hours later. On the following
morning Li Loyeh reported that his horse was dead.
Converting the Skifl into a Sledge.
Later on that same day, Turdu Bai’s old black horse
dropped down suddenly dead, and was followed by the
last of the horses that the Tibetans gave us. Of the stately
caravan which started from Charkhlik half a year before
there were now left only one horse, namely, that which I
was riding, 13 camels, and five mules. Rather than make
another winter journey through Tibet I would cross the
desert of Gobi a dozen times !
Still struggling on, we at length reached the temple-
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