Mr
Writing under date 15th February, 1892, from Lusar (coming from Sining),
Mr. Rockhill says: ‘The musk trade here is increasing, Cantonese and
Ssu-ch”uanese traders now come here to buy it, paying for good musk four
times its weight in silver (_ssu huan_, as they say). The best test of its
purity is an examination of the colour. The Tibetans adulterate it by
mixing tsamba and blood with it. The best time to buy it is from the
seventh to the ninth moon (latter part of August to middle of November).’
Mr. Rockhill adds in a note: ‘Mongols call musk _owo_; Tibetans call it
_lats_. The best musk they say is “white musk,” _tsahan owo_ in Mongol,
in Tibetan _lats?karpo_. I do not know whether white refers to the colour
of the musk itself or to that of the hair on the skin covering the musk
pouch.’ (_Diary of a Journey_, p. 71.)–H. C.]
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