196 Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya 



a birthday parade when the troops, who marched 

 by the ruling chief's portrait, were preceded by 

 a troop of dancing girls ! Think of that, ye 

 utilitarian and kharki-clad warriors ! 



To those, in short, who are tired of civilisation, 

 of " presenting their compliments and request- 

 ing the honour and much regretting, of being 

 pinioned at dinner-tables, stuck-up in ballrooms, 

 or cruelly planted in pews," I would point to 

 Ladak as the place that affords " complete rest 

 and change." 



