KHOTAN TO LEH 199 



remained till the 2ist, paid off our men, sold the 

 remains of our caravan, and had a well-earned rest, 

 after which we travelled down to Srinagar, doing 

 the 258 miles in ten days, and arriving on August 

 3Oth, 1900, after an absence of fourteen months 

 and twenty days. 



