The common brid calls the black white magpie + the rare ones which everwhere in fields, we shot 3 samples of ducks in a pond near our camp at Sanbeitzyn. On the road we met a party of Tibetan. There were 4 men + several women. The men looked very strangely each others. They wore red woven trousers + great leather boots, one carried a little blue trumpet + silly peaked hat of small size. The women carried apples on their backs wore the same sort of boots + glided along stonically. We passed at 4:30 PM that arrested person in brown on treeless + dry + denuded with the brick red soil showing in many places. It was a depopulated area in which cultivation was once prevalent, the tall fur range could be seen all day snow covered for half its height now when in Septem. It was smokeless. At 4:30 we passed three villages where the people were assembled on a large market day with the hum of voices at this late hour, & front the entrance of the main street was erected a great wall of solid granite to keep