104 Note, on the Pangong lake district of LcuhM. [No. 2, 



when made with good fresh butter. I gave him a few presents 



"irrelrn end of the Pangong the hills somewhat decrease 

 intltitude the highest lying to the north of Noh. Looking in a 

 li " ue east from the higher points I ascended the country 

 pi d flat hut undulating, and I observed in the far distance wo 

 or three pieces of water, these may turn out to be connected vith 

 Pangong Tso, probably bounded by steep sides which were not discern- 

 Se at twenty miles, they may extend for some distance ; the breadth 

 of hi high region was considerable, and extended up to a snowy 

 Lgt that rose suddenly on the south. The more level surface was 

 not bounded by any mountains, and was seen stretching to he h™ 

 The morning we left Pal was raw, cold, and cloudy ; the road lay 

 north we terly for some distance over the dead level plain, that showed 

 Sinclly it had once been covered by water, for dead fresh-water 

 Saie seen for some way ; we then rose from it over a long very 

 gradual slope of some three miles which at last contracted into a a- 

 v ounded with very low and easy scarped hill, A portion of t is 



ra vine was well wooded with the same kind of shrub as grew along the 

 hores of the Pangong. The little camp of Champas continued thm 

 march with us; and had we been one day later coming into Pal we 

 Bhouldhave missed them altogether and gone straight into Noh 

 without meeting a soul. Nearly all their worldly goods were earned 

 on sheep, only a few articles on the ponies which they rode. The 

 women drove the former, and, in fact, did more in the packing, unpack- 

 ing, and pitching of the tents, than their lords and masters ; a ter 

 which they were sent out on the hill side to collect the roots of a low 

 shrub having a scent like lavender. One of the girls was very nice 

 looking, and wore a peculiar head-dress which is not seen on the 

 Ladakh side. The usually narrow fillet of cloth worn by the LadaH 

 women was treble the usual width, and covered with torquoise and 

 silver ornaments; near the attachment at the forehead was a bar of 

 silver set with small torquoise, pendant from which so as to lay on the 

 forehead were a number of silver coins attached by short strings o 

 coral beads, the effect was very good. 1 had the young lady brought 

 over to my tent, where she sat for her portrait, and was debghtedj 

 the drawing made of her. The encamping ground was called Tobo 





