A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



usual way amongst the natives of these parts. The 

 following morning my camp and most of my 

 baggage had just started, and I was breakfasting in 

 the open, when a sudden loud report startled me, 

 and looking up I saw all the retainers running for 

 their lives, and calling out to me to do the same ; I 

 did, and then saw some tons of rock bounding 



INDUS ROAD, " BETWEEN KHARMANG AND TOLTI. 



downhill towards the site of our late camp ; the 

 bigger rocks stopped short, but a rain of smaller 

 pebbles went whizzing past which would have made 

 things decidedly lively had we still been there. 



In this country one should always be careful to 

 pitch camp where there is no danger of these stone 



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