Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir . THE KAHLONE OF LE AND HIS INTERPRETER. Kahlone is an old Thibetan title, and in theold days before the Dogra dynasty signified. BLTODHIST MONASTERY NEAR LE Tartary^ and Kashmir. 173 Prime Minister. Our new friends briefauthority, however, failed to gain for him muchrespect from the garrison, for he was accompaniedby a Sikh officer, who treated him with but scantcourtesy, and took no pains to disguise the factthat he held him in contempt as one of a con-quered race. Our curiosity had been excited by the descrip-tion of a large monastery in the neighbour
Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir . THE KAHLONE OF LE AND HIS INTERPRETER. Kahlone is an old Thibetan title, and in theold days before the Dogra dynasty signified. BLTODHIST MONASTERY NEAR LE Tartary^ and Kashmir. 173 Prime Minister. Our new friends briefauthority, however, failed to gain for him muchrespect from the garrison, for he was accompaniedby a Sikh officer, who treated him with but scantcourtesy, and took no pains to disguise the factthat he held him in contempt as one of a con-quered race. Our curiosity had been excited by the descrip-tion of a large monastery in the neighbourhood,and in the afternoon we made a pilgrimage to was about three miles off, up in the recesses ofthe mountain range to our left. The gorge inwhich it was situate was completely hid fromsight by a projecting promontory of rock whichformed a natural screen in front; but this oncepassed, the convent stood before you. In frontand close to you rustled a grove of green poplars,flanked by enormous tchoktens and manis. On theright of this the path leads; while above, onevery projecting piece of rock, were flat-roofedbuildings surmounted by square towers, white-was
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