CHAPTER 8: SILK ROAD

Nick Middleton

An Oxford professor as well as an adventurer.

Norbu

A Tibetan working for Chinese Academy of gh Social Science in Beijing.

Tsetan

A good Buddhist and believed that death was not the end of life.

Tibetan mastiffs

popular in China's imperial courts as hunting dogs.

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Nick Middleton

It is also a source of four great rivers

the Ganges, the Sutlej, the Indus and the Brahmaputra

After 10

30 pm they drove on to Darchen

clamber into

(here) get into clumsily

en masse

in group

clogged with

obstructed/blocked with

doubled with

smeared with

peter out

become exhausted gradually

drove its length

rode till the destination/ end

hive of activity

teeming with activity

forge ahead

continue moving forward or making progress

prone to something

likely to (suffer) something

gasp for breath-pant, fight for breath pass away

die

tempered by

hardened/toughened by

precious stones and pepper

and the Roman Empire's gold, silver, fine glassware

The dust and rocks were scattered everywhere in abundance

there was little vegetation

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Elizabeth Jennings

relationship

the way in which two or more people talk, behave or deal with each other