A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



water can be obtained by means of the usual 

 irrigation canals, are perched villages, but here 

 they are of a poorer class than those of the main 

 Shyok Valley, growing apparently only sufficient 

 barley and apricots for their own use. A short 

 way up the nalah we passed the opening of the 

 Saltoro Valley which leads eastwards beneath the 

 afore-mentioned organ pipe peaks, and then, turning 

 northwards, runs up to the glaciers of the main 

 range. 



MARMOT. 



