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Page 138 - There are numbers of encampments and settlements on the banks of the marshy lakes and their connecting channels; perhaps there are as many as a thousand houses or camps. These are inhabited by families who emigrated there about one hundred and sixty years ago. They are looked upon with contempt by true believers as only half
Page 212 - The greater elevation to which the limit of perpetual snow recedes on the Tartarian declivity is owing to the radiation of heat from the neighboring elevated plains, to the purity of the atmosphere, and the infrequent formation of snow in
Page 107 - by falsehood. Nay, I have often observed there is a fear of truth, as truth, lest its discovery should lead to consequences of which the inquirer never dreams, but which are present to the mind of the person under interrogation. Little moral disgrace attaches to insincerity and untruthfulness, their detection leads to a loss of reputation for sagacity and cunning, but goes no further.
Page 218 - is believed to be uninhabited. "The largest river crossed by the Pundit in this section of his travels was the Dumphu or Hota Sangpo, which receives the drainage of the southern slopes of the Targot-Gyakharma range of mountains, and flows into the
Page 124 - being troubled with this paine, and out of patience, there came an Indian woman which said to me, ' Father, lay this to thine eies, and thou shall be cured.
Page 231 - Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, Of cabbages, and kings, And why the sea
Page 212 - *"On the southern declivity of the Himalaya, the limit of perpetual snow is 12,978 feet above the level of the sea; on the northern declivity, or rather on the peaks which rise above the
Page 231 - so with the silke about their neckes, and with the branches in their hands, they returned out of the hall and downe the staires the way they came, and so through the court into the streetes.
Page 359 - as well as the products of its looms, are celebrated and in great demand. The products of the soil are varied and of excellent quality, and altogether this country would seem to be the most fertile spot of Tibet.
Page 65 - The Tibetans adulterate it by mixing tsamba and blood with it. The best time to buy it is from the seventh to the ninth moon (latter part of August to middle of November).*