| sir Alexander Cunningham - 1854 - 606 pages
...Father Hyaciuthe's translation from the Chinese. 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
...their forefathers must have been a much more exciting one. — Vide Cunningham's Ladak, pp. 311, 312. " The favourite amusement of the Botis, both of Ladak...ponies and armed with sticks about four feet long, and beut at the lower end. One player took the ball and advanced alone into the middle of the field, where... | |
| Charles Adolphus Murray Earl of Dunmore - 1893 - 426 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 VII.] " CHAOGAN." 69 yards long and... | |
| Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1998 - 580 pages
...Nouv. Jour. Asiatiijue, torn. iv. Ih29, pp. 254, 255, Father llyunthe's translation from the Chinese. 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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