[26] - This Is Mount "Everest," Which Has Been Called, The King Of The South.

The King of the North, "Nunga Purbut," is 26,629 feet above the level of the sea.

[27] - VIDE illustration, Hemis Monastery.

[28] - The only information I here again received was "Um mani panee!" The wheel consisted of a roll of the thinnest paper, six inches in diameter, and five and a half in width, closely printed throughout with the eternally recurring words, which all appeared so ready to pronounce and none seemed able to explain. The roll was sixty yards long, and was composed of a succession of strips, one foot nine inches in length, and all joined together. The whole was inclosed in a coarse canvas cover, open at both ends, and marked with what was no doubt the official seal of the particular society for the diffusion of ignorance at Lassa, from which it had originally emanated. Each of the strips contained the mystic sentence, one hundred and seventy times, so that I was thus at once put into possession of all the valuable intelligence to be derived from "Um mani panee," repeated between seventeen and eighteen thousand times. VIDE Appendix B.

[29] - The origin of this divinity is probably derived from the legend of Khoutoukhtou, which will be found in Appendix B.

[30] - The most remarkable of these were "Ser" and "Mer," otherwise called "Nanoo" and "Kanoo;" respectively 23,407 and 23,264 feet above the level of the sea.

[31] - The true version of the story appears to be that Gulab Singh had quarrelled with the Rajah of Cashmere, his rightful master, and entered into the service of the Rajah of Kushtwar.

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