A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



hovels and churtens below it. The elevation of the 

 village is 14,276 feet, and it is one of the highest 

 permanent habitations in the world. There is one 

 narrow field of barley or grim at the foot of the 



FORTIFIED MONASTERY OF HANI.E. 



rocks on which the Gonpa is built ; but, as it was not 

 even in ear at this season (August), I should say 



that the chances of its ripening were of the most 



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