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obtainable from each. The photograph which I took 

 one day explains better than any description the 

 method adopted. 



Our destination that day was Sangtha on the Zara 

 stream not far from Kharnak, a place where a village had 

 been built by the nomads to be occupied when necessary. 

 We arrived about 5 p.m., and encamped on a beautiful 

 piece of velvety grass by the edge of the water. 



During the day we had covered about 15 miles, 

 marching most of the time along a very wide valley of 

 granite dust strewn with boulders. It was wearisome and 

 monotonous to a degree, there being nothing to relieve 

 the eye in the dreary waste around us, nothing except an 

 occasional kyang or hare to divert the mind, depressed 

 by the sullen aspect of that immense tract of hopeless 

 desert. It was typical of a day's march in granite country 

 in Ladak, and was only better than many we had, in that 

 the terrible wind was not as strong as it might have 

 been, or the length of the journey as great. 



