Murray's journey. Part 8
**************************************************************************** Lonely women, short and two-wire, like Mongolian horses, all in a harness of jewelry and pointy hats, going the same way, were caught by him. Tong was used to overtaking them. Women called monitors, dispersing local evil spirits. And Tong Rampa dispersed herds of rams, here and there, caught on country roads. Philosophically minded yaks - these true Buddhists in shaggy hides - were more sympathetic to him. Tong Rampa waved at him and continued to measure the dry, indented soil with his crooked legs...