Golok people

Samding Dorje Phagmo The Golok or Ngolok (Tibetan: མགོ་ལོག; Chinese: 果洛; pinyin: guǒluò) peoples live in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China around the upper reaches of the Yellow River (Wylie: dmar chu) and the sacred mountain Amne Machin (Wylie: rma rgyal spom ra).

The amban, admitting that the Golok tribes were beyond Imperial control asked Shabkar to try preaching to them in hopes that this might tame them to some extent.

Occasional ambushes killed soldiers of the Ninghai Army, causing loss of dispatches and livestock like yaks.

One of the chief natural reasons for the incursion was the killing, by the Goloks, of several soldiers carrying official dispatches and seizing four or five thousand yaks belonging to the High Commissioner.

Men, women, and children were ruthlessly put to the sword and thousands were driven into the Yellow River to perish in its muddy water.

A heavy indemnity was exacted, thousands of sheep, yaks, and horses driven away, and tons of wool confiscated.

Thus is made safe for travel and missionary work a vast piece of country inhabited by thousands of nomads.