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Poussin, M. L. de la Vallée, on Sanskrit MSS., i. xxI ; ii. 211

Po-yang Ho, river in Nan-shan Range, ii. 269, 270

Pradakshina, or circumambulation, 1. 120 Prajnaparamita, Buddhist text repeated in Tibetan MSS., ii. 219

Prakrit dialect in Kharoshthi documents,

i. 286, 291, 491-493

Prakrit inscriptions on Miran frescoes, i.

491-493

Printed Chinese roll, dated 86o A.D., from

Caves of Thousand Buddhas, ii. 189

Prismatic glasses, i. 371, 377 ; ii. 48, 402 Proofs of Ancient Khotan, i. 109, 127, 184

Ptolemy's ' Geography,' i. 493 Pulsatory desiccation, ii. 415

Punjabi Muhammadan, near Keriya, i. 259 Pusa,' Chinese for Bodhisattva, ii. 30 Pusha, valley in Kun-lun Range, i. 174,

175

Puski, survey of ruined Stupa near, i. 157

Putti in Miran frescoes, i. 480, 494

Quatrocento art, suggested by Miran frescoes, i. 458, 481

Rabab, stringed instrument, in Taklamakan desert, ii. 390

Raft of goat-skins and wire-rope, i. 10,

157, 175, 193-195

Rajputs, 7th, in garrison at Chakdara, i. 14

Ram Singh, Naik, Jat Sikh sapper, with hereditary skill as carpenter, i. 8-10; help in surveying ruined temple, i. 16-17 ; developing photographs, i. 35 ; ii. 37, 164 ; sketching wood - carving, i. 48 ; refusal to eat Muhammadan dishes, i. 65 ; keen eye for tree growth, i. 129 ; planning house, i. 139 ; anthropological measuring, i. 150 ; with steel-wire raft,

i. 193 -194 ; in full uniform, i. 216 ; sawing of ancient panels and frescoes, i.

292, 463 ; ii. 370 ; crossing of ice-sheet,

i. 424-425 ; fever, i. 446, 463 ; ever scrupulously clean and tidy, ii. 49 ; sent to Kan-chou, ii. Soo ; his choice of house

with coffins, ii. 334-335 ; sent to Miran, where struck blind with glaucoma, ii.

432-433 ; return to India, and death, ii. 434 ; pension and compassionate allow-

ance to widow, ii. 434, 490

Ram Singh, Rai Sahib, Surveyor, Gurkha,

former companion and subsequently in Tibet, i. X1v, 9, Io ; anthropological

measuring, i. J5 ; on Darkot Pass, i. 556o; refusal to eat Muhammadan dishes, i.

65 ; detached for survey of Tash-kurghan valley, i. 97 ; for survey along Kun-lun Range, i. 147 ; accomplished with diffi-

culty, but successfully, i. 173-175 ; detached for survey of slopes of Tikelik-

tagh, i. 212 ; in vain search for ruins near Niya, i. 272, 278 ; for survey along Kun-lun Range towards Lop-nor, i. 300, 325, 346 ; rheumatism, i. 346, 412, 415,

434, 436, 446, 497 ; ii. 165 ; observations in Lop-nor desert, i. 529 ; tracing

plane-table work, ii. 37, 338 ; recon-

naissance along Old Wall, ii. 92, 131-133, 140, I57 ; site plan of Caves of Thousand

Buddhas, ii. 220 ; in Nan-Shan Range, ii. 269, 27o ; invests silver in gold dust, ii. 31I ; return to India along Altin-tagh,

ii. 338 - 339, 376 ; meeting at Dehra Dun, ii. 490 ; awarded prize by Royal

Geographical Society, ii. 490

Ramazan, Muhammadan fast, i. 322 ; ii.

349

Ramzan, worthless Kashmiri cook, i. 113,

415, 446 ; ii. 4, 33, 62, 71, 295 Rape-seed oil as ' camel's tea,' i. 357, 498 Rapson, Prof., his decipherment of Kha-

roshthi documents, i. xxi, 286, 288 Raquette, Mr., Swedish medical missionary

at Yarkand, i. 133, 134 ; ii. 429, 433, 434 Rations of grain for garrison on Old Wall,

1. 398 ; ii. 151

Rats, legend of sacred, i. 161

Rawak, ruins of, revisited, i. 222-225 Rawling, Captain, in Tibet, i. 9

Read, Mr. C. H., help of, i. xix

Rectangular wooden tablets, i. 274, 281, 282, 289, 385, 386

Red cloaks of Chinese soldiers and executioners, i. 167, 216, 338 ; ii. 272, 273,

299

Reed layers in Old Wall, i. 541. See also

Brushwood and Fascines Reeds. See Kumush Relievos. See Stucco relievos Reshun, in Chitral, i. 43

' Re-soling ' of camels, i. 336, 367, 525 Rhubarb, wild, in Richthofen Range, ii. 305

Richthofen Range, ii. 270, 285, 295, 297310

Ridding, Miss C. M., collaborator on Tibetan MSS., i. XXII ; ii. 218

Roborowsky and Kozloff, MM., Russian travellers, i. 427, 431, 530, 534 ; ii. 6,

47, 323, 353, 354

Rolls, of Chinese, Tibetan, Brahmi, Sogdian

MSS. from Caves of Thousand Buddhas,

2. 29, 171, 175-176, 183, 186

Rolls, of Chinese coins, i. 245

Roman attitude in Miran frescoes, i. 472

Roman faces in Miran frescoes, i. 480,

483

Roman Limes, suggested by Old Wall, ii.

107

Roman saddlery in Miran frescoes, i. 487

Roof of the World' = Pamir, i. 76, 77,

79

Rope for picketing horses, ancient, ii. 99