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inside the house and 38^ outside — a temperature to which 

 one is not accustomed in the month of June ; a hundred 

 miles away, down in the plains, these figures would have 

 to be multiplied by three to get the proper feel of the 

 weather. The 8th was a clear dry day, and fresh snow 

 could be seen on all the hills around. This bit of bad 

 weather luckily came when I was comfortably housed; it 

 would have been awful in a tent. No coolies or supplies 

 arrived on the 9th. The Thakur had collected some from 

 the villages adjacent, and promised to hurry up the rest 

 after me, so I made a start, and marched to Ki'ilang. 



Before going any farther, I had better finish my say 

 about Lahoul, and give some details of the shooting to be 

 obtained there. The Moravian Mission has been estab- 

 lished here, I believe, for more than forty years ; it is in a 

 most flourishing condition now, and, under the charge of its 

 present head, the venerable and amiable pastor, Mr. Heyde, 

 will continue to flourish in years to come. Venerable is a 

 misleading term to apply to this gentleman, whose fresh 

 face and robust frame, full of the energy of strong vitality, 

 belie the word entirely ; but I should be sorry to make a 

 guess at his age. 



Thakur Hari Singh, the local magistrate, was very 

 communicative. He knows a great deal of the geography 

 of Tibet, and gave me a very interesting account of his 

 travels. He has been all over Ladakh with Philip Egerton, 

 a former Deputy Commissioner of Kiingra, who sent him 

 on a mission to Gartokh in Tibet to open trade com- 

 munication between the two countries. When he arrived 

 there he got the stereotyped answer : " It was a new 

 custom, and they could not allow entry into their country ; 

 it was against orders," etc. The Thakur accompanied Sir 

 Douglas Forsyth in his mission to Yarkand, and was a 

 great help to him during that trying journey. The 



