A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



the night, we were glad that we had taken the 

 usual precautions of covering our faces with vaseline 

 and putting on tinted spectacles, as the glare was 

 very trying. At the summit of the pass some 

 diversion was caused by the sight of a herd of ibex 

 on the rocks above, but these turned out to be all 

 females and young bucks. About nine o'clock we 



THE ZOGI-LA. 



reached the huts of Mitsahoi which are built here as 

 a shelter for the dak runners. One of these hovels 

 was closed with a Purdah, and we heard that a 

 young coolie had been born there on the previous 

 day (fancy alluding to one's birthplace as a stone 

 hut on the summit of the Zogi-La). Not long 



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