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0081 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 81 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER III THROUGH HUNZA

ON the afternoon of the 15th of June I left Gilgit full of the pleasant impressions

MIR'S CASTLE AT BALTIT.   from my cordial reception

at this last Anglo-Indian outpost. The first march of eighteen miles was to Nomal, a green oasis in the otherwise barren valley of the river which comes from Hunza. The preceding days in Gilgit had been abnormally cloudy and cool, and this weather made marching pleasant enough. Since the little war of 1891, which had asserted British authority in Hunza, the road up the valley has been greatly improved. Nevertheless, it is but

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