A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



village of Himis, with its wonderful monastery, was 

 within a couple of miles of me ; as it is situated in 

 a side ravine so narrow and rocky that from the 

 main road you see no vestige of it. I had been 

 told when in Srinagar that I ought to make a 

 point of seeing what I thought they called the 

 " Hemisphere." I had not at that time read 

 Knight's book, and knew nothing of the Himis 



LOOKING UP THE INDl'S VALLEY t ROM 

 MACHALANG. 



Fair ; however, I could not have combined ibex- 

 shooting in Baltistan and this wonderful Buddhist, 

 or, to speak more correctly, Lamaist, ceremonial, 

 and, perhaps it was my bad taste, preferred the 

 former. On my way back I visited this Gonpa, 

 which is well worth seeing, even when the ceremony 

 is not going on. From Machalang there is a nalah, 



which is famous for its burhel-shooting, by which 



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