A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA. 



NOTE ON TRADE BETWEEN INDIA AND 

 LADAKH. 



[NOTE. Official figures for the trade of Ladakh with the 

 neighbouring states other than India are not obtainable in 

 this country for a later date than 1895. As we may now 

 expect to have more intimate relations than heretofore 

 with Thibet, and a marked improvement in the whole 

 trans-frontier traffic, it might be advantageous to British 

 merchants to have the detailed reports of the Commis- 

 sioners in the Frontier-States transmitted regularly from 

 Simla. The following table, taken from the latest ' India 

 Land Trade Accounts,' brings the statistics for Ladakh up 

 to the 3 1st of March, 1898 (pp. 210-211) : 



Neither the exportation nor the importation of treasure 

 is included in these figures. According to the * Statistical 

 Abstract' (1897), the treasure -account stands as follows 

 for the years mentioned (p. 2 1 8) : 



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