DISAPPOINTMENT.
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had come, where we should have no need for a guide.
Although this decision had been formed some time previously, it was not the less with sorrowful hearts that we bade farewell to the banks of the Yangtse-kiang. For well we knew that neither nature nor man stood in our way, and that the want of funds was the only obstacle to our reaching the capital of Tibet.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Mongolia%2C_the_Tangut_Country%2C_and_the_Solitudes_of_Northern_Tibet_-_Horns_of_the_Orongo-Antelope.jpg/200px-Mongolia%2C_the_Tangut_Country%2C_and_the_Solitudes_of_Northern_Tibet_-_Horns_of_the_Orongo-Antelope.jpg)
Horns of the Orongo-Antelope.