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of Sah Tscha at 7 A.M.
Weather foggy & cold.
The road followed up the Tso Lingo Ho river to its source where we reached a small village on the crest of a ridge called Ta-fu-[[ssu?]] 
Here the people were greatly by a robbery which had just occurred an hour previously on the road.  A band of 40 robbers attack a caravan of 80 mules & ten mahfus & stole ten loads of goods.  The most precious was a load of jade worth $5,000.00.  They took several loads of musk which is also valuable & left the remainder.  The place where the attack was made was strewn with boards of boxing material & paper. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] We met the chief muleteer who was in tears & had his arms bandadged & was much