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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... Fields Shipki Shipki Fields Namgea Fields Camp on Lío Porgyúl " " دو " " about 10,500 about 13,000 6 99 7 29 Chinese Tibet 10,027 " " 8,9 about 13,000 10 " " Kunáwar about 13,000 11 29 Hangrang about 13,000 12 • J CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
... Fields Shipki Shipki Fields Namgea Fields Camp on Lío Porgyúl " " دو " " about 10,500 about 13,000 6 99 7 29 Chinese Tibet 10,027 " " 8,9 about 13,000 10 " " Kunáwar about 13,000 11 29 Hangrang about 13,000 12 • J CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
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... fields - Camp on the pass - The great mountain Lío Porgyúl - Extraordinary scene by moonlight — Chota Khan's wrath - Power of the sun - An awful scene- -Cross the Chinese frontier - Summit of the pass - The rolling hills of Tar- tary ...
... fields - Camp on the pass - The great mountain Lío Porgyúl - Extraordinary scene by moonlight — Chota Khan's wrath - Power of the sun - An awful scene- -Cross the Chinese frontier - Summit of the pass - The rolling hills of Tar- tary ...
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... field for the researches of the archæologist . Though its upper course is tumultuous enough , in deep clefts through marble rock , and falling in cascades over high ledges , it soon reaches a rich broad valley , containing iron and coal ...
... field for the researches of the archæologist . Though its upper course is tumultuous enough , in deep clefts through marble rock , and falling in cascades over high ledges , it soon reaches a rich broad valley , containing iron and coal ...
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... not succeed so well with field work , for their early marriages , peculiar diet and habits of life , do not fit them for combining physical with intellectual exertions . At Rúrki there are RÚRKI , HARDWAR , AND THE TERAI . 27.
... not succeed so well with field work , for their early marriages , peculiar diet and habits of life , do not fit them for combining physical with intellectual exertions . At Rúrki there are RÚRKI , HARDWAR , AND THE TERAI . 27.
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... fields of the tea - shrub . In one plantation which I examined particularly , the whole process of preparing the tea was shown to me . It was under the superintendence of a Celestial , and the process did not differ much from that ...
... fields of the tea - shrub . In one plantation which I examined particularly , the whole process of preparing the tea was shown to me . It was under the superintendence of a Celestial , and the process did not differ much from that ...
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