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the accrued snow. But more radiant than the Sun was me due to, even though I didn’t sleep the
entire night, I was sure to have the solution to direct the dogs daivas behind the steps of Ernst
Schaeffer, and that achievement encouraged and overdriven me.

When von Grossen saw me, he didn’t need to ask to know that the problem was solved.

He was dedicated, instead, to send a lopa to relief the Gurkha and notify him the
ubication of our campsite; then he was concentrated to study the deficient maps of the Tibet
and the West of China. I spent the morning talking with Oskar and the other officers , and
at noon we lunched tsampa, a saucepan cooked by three monks, forming altogether a great
wheel of comrades. The recent adventure had approached us to the danger and death, and left
as positive balance a healthy camaraderie that reminded me the days of the Hitlerjugend. Yes;
I even could assure you, neffe Arturo, that in those moments we felt a carefree happiness.

It was getting dark when the arrived the Gurkha, the lopa sent by von Grossen, and the
two lopas that we left in Yushu, and the five carriers with the yaks, the zhos, and the terrible
dogos. I think that I never felt so happy in my life as in htat occasion, at recovering the dogs
daivas. The arrival was very celebrated by officers because, in addition to the victuals, in the
yaks were other fifty loaders of Schmeisser and bullets of Luger, just to replace the ammunition
spent against the duskhas. The two monks kâulikas brought fresh news about the attack,
collected in the path Chang-Lam.

The whole region of the Tibet would be, apparently, shocked for the event. Through the
path, troops of an entitled «Prince of Kuku Noor» had intercepted them, but after the received
explanations they allowed them to leave without problems. Such indicent was consequence of
the civil war: in some moment of its History, the country of the Tibet reached to lake Kuku
Noor; later, the Chinise formed the province of that name and made retreat the frontier of the
Tibet more to the South of the River Yang Tse Kiang; and at last, after the incorporation of
other small states, principalities, or Tibetan feuds, constituted the great province of Tsinghai.

At the beginning of the war between Japon and China, and due to the absence of the
central power for the occupation of the capital of the Celestial Empire, the Tibetans saw the
opportunity to recover their ancient seigniories and the independence of China and join to the
Tibet again. In that particular case, the resurged Prince of Kuku Noor was a fervorous Buddhist
of the Tibetan tribe lubum, whose members form part of the lamaistic aristocracy. Their
devotion and respect for the Dalai Lama had no limits, and the aggression to the duskhas had
affected him profoundly: for such reason he sent many groups of armed men to the quest for
the attackers.

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