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Chakzal! Chakzal!" I felt anything but regal after the wretched night we had spent, but I wished to treat the natives with due deference and politeness whenever it was possible. I said that four men might approach, but the bulk of the party must withdraw to a spot about two hundred yards away.
He collapsed, while I administered another blow in the right temple of another man who held his matchlock between his legs, and was on the point of striking his flint and steel in order to set the tinder on fire. He, too, staggered and fell clumsily. "Chakzal, chakzal! Chakzal wortzié!" "Chakzal!" "Middù, middù!" I purchased from these men about thirty pounds of tsamba and eight pounds of butter.
This is a most characteristic gesture of the Tibetan, and nearly invariably accompanies the word "No," instead of a movement of the head, as with us. "Keran ga naddoung?" "Nhgarang ne koroun!" "Gopria zaldo. Chakzal wortzé. Tsamba middù. Please hear me. This, of course, I knew to be untrue. I calmly said that I would remain seated where I was until food was sold to me.
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