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0478 Southern Tibet : vol.4
Southern Tibet : vol.4 / Page 478 (Color Image)

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the seventh month, a fair used to be held at *Nagrong*, and at that time about
100 tents from the surrounding valleys used to come, as well as some merchants.
In the region, there is then good grass for the herds. The nomads stay about a
month, after which, and after having finished their bargain, they return to their
valleys. At a short distance to the west of *Nagrong*, two tents were said to be
pitched. The owners possessed some 700 sheep and used to wander to the fair of
*Gyanima* every year. They would probably be able to sell sheep to us. I sent
some of my men to the place, and the assertions of the Lama proved to be correct.
My servants had wandered two hours and crossed a little pass beyond which they
found a tent, the other being at some distance from it. The inhabitants were one
man, one woman and four children. They had complained of the weather which, this
year, was severer and more windy than usual, and the flocks had been suffering
from it. Five sheep and two goats had been bought by my men. We, therefore,
now had a caravan of 25 sheep carrying most of our luggage and provisions. If
we continued S. E., we would come across some 10 or 20 tents of which they knew,
but on my road from 1901 we would not find any nomads, as this region is in-
habited only during the summer.