. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. CHILDREN S CRAVES AT CHONOO. by a rectangular fence of little wooden beams fitted into four squarecorner posts, whose tops are cut in the shape of a die or a most interesting of the three cemeteries is the highest. It is nowplainly abandoned, the wall which once enclosed it partly in ruins, andof the door only the wooden frame is left. Within this enclosure area dozen tombs surrounded by the small wooden railing just describedand a few others, so much l
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. CHILDREN S CRAVES AT CHONOO. by a rectangular fence of little wooden beams fitted into four squarecorner posts, whose tops are cut in the shape of a die or a most interesting of the three cemeteries is the highest. It is nowplainly abandoned, the wall which once enclosed it partly in ruins, andof the door only the wooden frame is left. Within this enclosure area dozen tombs surrounded by the small wooden railing just describedand a few others, so much larger as to seem monumental by comparison,these latter consisting of clay brick walls strengthened at the corners • See illustration of the Parkutta cemetery, p. 120. * We occasionally met with an isolated tomb adorned with one or tv\-o upright poles hungabout with rags ; the grave of some saint, but held in far less veneration than similar buryingplaces in Central Chongo ognojlJ
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