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SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR 



some photographs. My wife had visited it with the rest 

 of the European community at Leh, on the 20th of 

 June, when the acting of the annual Miracle Play began. 

 We started from Eek about 7.30 a.m. with the same 

 three ponies and the same seven or eight coolies, 

 and about 9 o'clock reached Shera, where we obtained 



Chorten Shrine in the principal Gompa of Himis Monastery (p- 372)- 



six fresh ponies, and I paid for the journey from 

 Kyungyam. 



Although I had had different lots of men, and some- 

 times ponies only, and sometimes both ponies and men, 

 I had no trouble with the accounts, as the distance was 

 counted as two paraos or stages, and I paid as if I had 

 had six ponies the whole time. The villagers apparently 



