. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . o interpreterand being a little anxious as to how affairs might be prosper-ing in camp, I turned back. On the way I examined moreclosely some of the cottages, which were singularly Alpine intheir general structure. More characteristic was the long,low wall of inscribed stones similar to those we saw after-wards at Jongri, Alukthang, and elsewhere. These walls arecalled meiidongs, and are common throughout Tibet as faras the Chinese frontier. They are, as a rule, some threefeet high and are capped by a rude coping of flat s
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . o interpreterand being a little anxious as to how affairs might be prosper-ing in camp, I turned back. On the way I examined moreclosely some of the cottages, which were singularly Alpine intheir general structure. More characteristic was the long,low wall of inscribed stones similar to those we saw after-wards at Jongri, Alukthang, and elsewhere. These walls arecalled meiidongs, and are common throughout Tibet as faras the Chinese frontier. They are, as a rule, some threefeet high and are capped by a rude coping of flat stoneswhich partially protect from the weather the carvingscontributed by pilgrims or passers-by. The custom isapparently a relic of nature-worship, of propitiatory offer-ings to the demons of the locality, although the formulasnow employed are Buddhistic. I had left the camp under the impression that all wasgoing smoothly, and that on my return I should find ourreprovisionment had been satisfactorily arranged. Itproved, however, that a hitch had occurred owing to the. IIIW/ \. M IK
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