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attract them.
4) Rev. Kock remained until
yesterday + told me several
about the country, the Mono
+ Tibetans. In the afternoon
he took me to one of the village
houses so where buttered tea
the chief dish of the Tibetans,
I tasted much of butter
which is churned into it & very
little tea. Walnuts are
also added + some spices.
Another dish he tasted was
tsamba, the staple food of
Tibet. This is roasted oat
meal mixed with the buttered
tea; I tasted quite good,
In the morning a shepherd
brought a fine & black muntjac
Elophus which he found dead in the forest. Showing that yesterday by the Solu hunters you doubt. The stomach of this animal contained gray beard chicken + afew wild leaves + aspen, apples but no grass