Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and KashmirSaunders, Otley, 1862 - 367 pages |
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appearance ascent baggage Balti Bara Lacha Pass Beas river boat boatmen breakfast bridge called camp capital carried Chenab Chumpa Chunars cold coolies crossed Darjeeling Dilla distance Dogra European followed foot gardens Gilgit Government green halt hand height hills Himalayas Hindoo houses hundred India Indus Jhelum Kangra Kashgar Kashmir Khan khilta Khoja Koksar Kulu Ladâk Ladakhis ladies Lahoul lake Lamah leave left bank look Maharajah mighty miles Mirza Moorcroft morning mountain narrow native never night Official Friend Otley paddle passed path pitched plain ponies poplars Post 8vo Punjab reached ridge river rivulet road rock round route Rudok sahib Sarepta Schlagentweit servants shawls side Sikhs Simla slope snow soon Sreenuggur steep stone strange stream stretched summit Sutlej Tartar tents Thibetan thick thousand feet tion travellers turban valley Vide village vols Vulli Yarkund Zorawur Singh
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Page 236 - The meeting boughs and implicated leaves Wove twilight o'er the Poet's path, as, led By love, or dream, or god, or mightier Death, He sought in Nature's dearest haunt some bank, Her cradle...
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Page 242 - And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o'er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and exultation held his way...