. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . TIBETAN CURIOS 263 against his principles, and also that our dealings were amatter of friendship, not of business. But of course Isaw that the monasteries were no losers and that theyreceived a donation of equal value (in so far as suchthings can be valued) to the treasures they parted monasteries preferred, in the case of objects thatcould be copied in Ladakh, that I should replace whatthey gave me with modern replicas, as the age of anarticle appeared in no way to enhance its value in theireyes. Truly it was a
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . TIBETAN CURIOS 263 against his principles, and also that our dealings were amatter of friendship, not of business. But of course Isaw that the monasteries were no losers and that theyreceived a donation of equal value (in so far as suchthings can be valued) to the treasures they parted monasteries preferred, in the case of objects thatcould be copied in Ladakh, that I should replace whatthey gave me with modern replicas, as the age of anarticle appeared in no way to enhance its value in theireyes. Truly it was a case of new lamps for old, in whichI profited as much as the magician of the Arabian Nights. On my return to Srinagar, Mr. Geoffrey Millais, who isa past-master of photographic art, and whose exquisiteviews of Kashmir should be even better known than theyare, very kindly took a picture of my collection. This wasno easy undertaking, as any one who has attempted tophotograph a large group of inanimate objects knows difficulties of arranging them so that one sh
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