 | sir Alexander Cunningham - 1854 - 606 pages
...the dead, t * Moorcroft's Travels, II. p. 49. The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Ladák and of Balti, is Polo, in which all parties from the...the lowest can take a part. I saw the game played at MuIbil, in a field 400 yards long and eighty yards broad, which was walled round for the purpose with... | |
 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - 1862 - 422 pages
...one. — Vide Cunningham's Ladak, pp.311, 312. " The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Ladik and of Balti, is Polo, in which all parties, from...take a part. I saw the game played at Mulbil, in a 6eld 400 yards long and 80 yards broad, which was walled round for the purpose with a stone dyke. There... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Murray Earl of Dunmore - 1893 - 434 pages
...the passage worthy of quotation. He writes : " The favourite amusement of the Botis of Ladak and Balk is polo, in which all parties, from the highest to the lowest, can take part. I saw the game played at Mulbil, in a field four hundred yards long and eighty yards broad, which... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Murray Earl of Dunmore - 1894 - 438 pages
...lowest, can take part. I saw the game played at Mulbil, in a field four hundred yards long and eighty yards broad, which was walled round for the purpose...ponies and armed with sticks about four feet long and bant at tlw lower end. One player took the ball and advanced alone into the middle of the field, where... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1998 - 580 pages
...are considered the most fortunate modes of disposing of the dead.t * Moorcroft's Travels, II. p. 49. The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Ladak...game played at Mulbil, in a field 400 yards long and eighty yards broad, which was walled round for the purpose; with a stone dyke. There were twenty players... | |
 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - 1862 - 408 pages
...one. — Vide Cunningham's Ladak, pp. 311, 312. " The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Lad£k and of Balti, is Polo, in which all parties, from...was walled round for the purpose with a stone dyke. Thei-e were twenty players on each side, all mounted on ponies and armed with sticks about four feet... | |
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The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Ladak and of Balti, is Polo, in which all parties from the highest to the lowest can take a part. I saw the game played at Mulbil, in a field 400 yards long and eighty yards broad, which was walled round for... 