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When he scents danger he snorts loudly, throws up his head, cocks his ears, and expands his nostrils; he is more like a fine ass than a horse, but when you see him wild and free on the salt plains of Tibet, the difference between him and an ass seems even greater than between an ass and a horse. My own horses and mules seemed sorry jades by the side of the "kiangs" of the desert.
There is a name I must know as soon as possible, that of the mandarin returning to China in the form of a mortuary parcel. With a little ingenuity Popof may manage to ascertain it from one of the Persians in charge of his Excellency. If it would only be that of some grand functionary, the Pao-Wang, or the Ko-Wang, or the viceroy of the two Kiangs, the Prince King in person!
The others behaved in a similar manner. Kachi was, as usual, the last one to wake. "Oh, Kachi," I shouted, "get up!" "Oh, bahiyoh!" Half asleep, half awake, he looked round as if in a trance, muttering incoherent words. "Good-morning, sir. Oh ... much snow. Oh ... look, sir, two kiangs there! What is 'kiang' in English?" "Wild horse." "'Wild' you spell w-i-l-d?" "Yes."
They planted extensively the tall red and the white, Which were carried on their shoulders and backs, Home for the sacrifices which he founded . Hau-ki's mother, we have seen, was a princess of Thai, in the present district of Wu-kung, Khien Kau, Shen-hsi. This may have led to his appointment to that principality, and the transference of the lordship from Kiangs to Kis.
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