 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - 1862 - 420 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...The game consisted in winning a certain number of their shop doors and look on. To the left are some Hindoo temples of great antiquity, and the Rajah's... | |
 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - 1862 - 422 pages
...twenty players on each side, all mounted on ponies and armed with sticks about four feet long, and beut at the lower end. One player took the ball and advanced...The game consisted in winning a certain number of their shop doors and look on. To the left are some Hindoo temples of great antiquity, and the Eajah's... | |
 | Church missionary society - 636 pages
...ponies. They are provided with sticks about four feet long, and hooked at the lower end. The goals are formed of two upright stones placed about twentyfive or thirty feet apart. The ball, being thrown up in the middle of the field, is struck, as it descends, towards one or another... | |
 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - 1862 - 408 pages
...lower end. One player took the ball and advanced alone into the middle of the field, where he threw vip the ball, and as it fell, struck it towards one of...The game consisted in winning a certain number of their shop doors and look on. To the left are some Hindoo temples of great antiquity, and the Kajah's... | |
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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 80 yards broad, which was walled round for the purpose with a stone dyke. There were twenty players on each side,... 