The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valleys of the HimalayaW. Blackwood and Sons, 1875 - 475 էջ |
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... cross a deeply - sunk torrent . The map which accompanies this volume has been based on a section of a large school - map of India by the Rev. J. Barton , published under the direction of Committees of the Society for Promoting ...
... cross a deeply - sunk torrent . The map which accompanies this volume has been based on a section of a large school - map of India by the Rev. J. Barton , published under the direction of Committees of the Society for Promoting ...
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... Cross the Chinese frontier - Summit of the pass - The rolling hills of Tar- tary - Descent to Shipki , - 160 CHAPTER XVIII . STOPPED BY TARTARS . - Arrival at Shipki - An unexpected difficulty - Tartar young women— Supplies and carriage ...
... Cross the Chinese frontier - Summit of the pass - The rolling hills of Tar- tary - Descent to Shipki , - 160 CHAPTER XVIII . STOPPED BY TARTARS . - Arrival at Shipki - An unexpected difficulty - Tartar young women— Supplies and carriage ...
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... cross the Sahyadri range by a bridle - path , or be dragged painfully by tortured bullocks at the rate of half a mile an hour , as was the case only a few years ago ; yet he has only to stop at the picturesquely - situated bungalow at ...
... cross the Sahyadri range by a bridle - path , or be dragged painfully by tortured bullocks at the rate of half a mile an hour , as was the case only a few years ago ; yet he has only to stop at the picturesquely - situated bungalow at ...
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... cross the outer snowy range from the former station during July , August , and September , when the monsoon is piling snow upon it , and beneath the snow - line the rivers are flooded . The younger hill - stations of Dharamsala and Dal ...
... cross the outer snowy range from the former station during July , August , and September , when the monsoon is piling snow upon it , and beneath the snow - line the rivers are flooded . The younger hill - stations of Dharamsala and Dal ...
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... cross the border in order to see Chini and the Kailas ; and even his children kindled with enthusiastic delight as they cried out " Pangay ! Pangay ! " This Engineering College was founded in 1848 by Mr James Thomason , the then ...
... cross the border in order to see Chini and the Kailas ; and even his children kindled with enthusiastic delight as they cried out " Pangay ! Pangay ! " This Engineering College was founded in 1848 by Mr James Thomason , the then ...
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