INTRODUCTION. 



Mr. H. Lindsay (late Gordon Highlanders) for the 

 excellent photographs of Baltistan. 



I may say that my only hope in setting forth the 

 diary of a successful expedition is that it may be of 

 some interest and use to other sportsmen intending 

 to follow in the same track ; and may they enjoy 

 themselves as much, and have as good luck, as 

 befell the Author during his " Summer in High 

 Asia." 



London, 1899. F. E. S. ADAIR. 



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