A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



would eat from the hand. The next day we passed 

 through Bazgo, another of the picturesque villages 

 perched on crags 

 which are so common 

 in Ladakh, and here 

 we saw a prayer- 

 wheel turned by 

 water, a convenient 

 way of having one's 

 prayers said for one, 

 as, according to the 

 Lama religion, the 

 greater the number of 

 times that the mystic 

 " Om mani padmi 

 om " is repeated, 

 the more stages you pass 

 through on your way to the 

 attainment of the seventh 

 heaven, " Nirvana." I was 

 unable to ascertain whether 



this prayer-wheel said prayers for the whole 

 village at once, or was to be hired by the hour. 



That night we encamped at Snemo, and trie 

 following day we started up a path leading at first 

 through many gullies and ravines in the low 

 sand-hills. Here in one place I observed innu- 

 merable small heaps of stones piled up in every 

 direction in a narrow defile. On inquiry I was 



told that these were placed here in order to be 



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RUINED BUDDHIST 

 VILLAGE OF BAZGO. 



