Other Supplies, Also, Were A Good Deal Weakened By
Successive Attacks; Potatoes Had Been Extinct Many Days, And The Stock
Of Ducks, Which Formed Our Main Stay In Case Of Future Difficulties,
Was Rapidly Succumbing To The Knife Of The Assassin.
Under these
circumstances we felt that we would be in no way justified in hurting
the Kardar's feelings at
The expense of our own, by refusing his
present, and believing ourselves to be in this instance fit subjects
for out-door relief, the new arrival was soon swinging about in the
breeze, a welcome addition to our unfurnished larder.
Having thus ended the struggle between our duty and our feelings,
we turned our attention to the exploration of the surrounding country.
The town of Ladak, although in a commercial point of view by no means
a flourishing-looking settlement, was, as far as picturesqueness was
concerned, everything that could be desired. It was built in the style
so popular throughout the country - on pinnacles of rock, and such
out of the way positions as seemed, of all others, the least adapted
for building purposes - immediately outside the town, occupying a
sort of bason among the surrounding mountains, and was what might
fairly be called a "city of the dead." It was of considerable extent,
and was formed of groups of the numerous monumental buildings which
I have described, and which in a country where the habitations of
the living appear so few in proportion to those of the dead, form so
curious and remarkable a feature.
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