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"Do!" he snorted, "Write and tell 'em when they've got any kind of job on the size of six-pence I'll be in it! And if not Tibet's about as useful to draw up a report on as ice in the hunting season and I'm off in March and that's that!" A tear rolled down Estelle's cheek and splashed on the tablecloth; she trembled harder until her teaspoon rattled. Winn looked at her.
Others gather salt on the dried-up beds of lakes, pack it in double-ended bags, and carry it on sheep to barter it for barley in the southern districts, which are the home of the great majority of Tibet's two or three million inhabitants.
From Simla we go down by train through hundreds of tunnels and round the sharpest curves, over countless bridges and along dizzy precipices, to the lowlands of the Punjab. It is exceedingly hot, and we long for a little breeze from Tibet's snowy mountains. Time flies by till we reach Delhi, situated on the Jumna, one of the affluents of the Ganges.
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