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"AT LAST A NEW BRIDGE WAS COMPLETED" ... 98 

 ON THE ROAD TO LEH, VILLAGE OF SASPUL , . .108 

 RUINED BUDDHIST VILLAGE OF BAZGO .... 109 



"MANI" STONE no 



THE CENTRAL ASIAN ROAD LEADING INTO LEH. . . 115 

 LOOKING UP THE INDUS VALLEY FROM MACHALANG . .119 

 THE TOWN OF LEH . . . . . . . .123 



CAMP IN THE GYA NALAH . . . . . . .128 



LEH f .129 



LEH 137 



THE BRITISH JOINT-COMMISSIONER'S HOUSE AT LEH . .143 

 " WE CLAMBERED DOWN . . . AND PEEPED OVER " . . 148 



GROUP OF YAKS, LEH 153 



THE CORNFIELDS OF LEH 159 



"WE CAME UPON A VERY STRIKING SCENE" . . . 166 

 CHURTEN IN THE CITY OF LEH . , . . . .167 

 CAMP AT THE TSO-KAR YAKS FEEDING . . . .172 

 THE STATE DISPENSARY IN LEH . . . . .173 

 ANEMOMETER AND METEOROLOGICAL STATION AT LEH . 183 



INDUS VALLEY AT NYUMA MUD 185 



FORTIFIED MONASTERY OF HANLE . . . . .190 

 HIMIS MONASTERY . .207 



"THIS LAKE IS SURROUNDED BY YELLOW AND RED HILLS". 213 



SUNSET ON THE TSO-MORIRI . . . . . .216 



THE CHAGZOT AND LAMAS OF THE HIMIS MONASTERY . 219 

 CHURTENS AND MANI ON THE ROAD BELOW HIMIS . . 229 

 YOUNG BUDDHIST RED LAMA . . . . . .232 



BUDDHIST SILVER AND COPPER SHRINE BOX, AND METAL 



OPIUM PIPE 235 



" H." AND THE AUTHOR, WITH THEIR LADAKH TROPHIES . 236 

 ON THE SRINAGAR-LEH ROAD : MONASTERY AND VILLAGE 



OF LAMAYURU 239 



ON THE ROAD TO LEH : VILLAGE AND MONASTERY OF 



CHAMBA-MOULBEKH 241 



RDUNGSTEN IN THE HIMIS MONASTERY . . . .247 



BUDDHIST PRAYER-WHEEL 25.1 



SOOROO BRIDGE, UNDER CONSTRUCTION . . . 269 



COMPLETED .... .273 



CURIOS FROM LEH 277 



