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fun to turn them over and over down the hills with
the iron ends of our staves.

“We also met with worms of a very surprising
kind. One day, when it was very hot, we were
journeying along a little stream that meandered
through a valley in which the grass grew very
high. ‘Towards noon, after drinking tea, we lay
down and slept on the edge of a stream. You
know that, according to the rule of Tsong Kabi,
the yellow-mitred lamas do not wear trousers.
When we woke up, we found a number of worms
sticking to our legs; they were of a gray colour,
and as big as one’s finger. We tried to get them
off, but could not ; and as we did not experience
any pain from them, we waited to see what would
be the end of the affair. By and by the beasts
swelled ; and when they had become quite round
and large, they dropped off themselves. Oh! Thibet
ig a strange country. You see animals there that
are found nowhere else.” The reader will by this
time have discovered that these ‘‘ wonderful ani-
mals” were no other than hedgehogs and leeches !

Before bidding farewell to the Lamasery of
Kounboum, we must not forget to mention its
name is composed of two Thibetian words, signify-
ing Ten Thousand Images, and having allusion to
the tree which, according to the legend, sprang
from the hair of Tsong-Kaba, the celebrated re-