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0196 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 196 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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darkness set in and the cold increas
we should be pretty helpless in an un
the worst thoughts of relieving again
our military risks were very great. But
thought it would be better to face it o
red at next morning, we examined
us still find it could be turned into a p
us had a well within the walls,
a Mason should remain there, with
company of the 23rd Pioneers, Lieutena
bridge department, and a 7-pounder
er Colonel Hogge; while General Ma
the flying column, returned to Chumbi
arrangements.

the surroundings in which we now found
miserable in the extreme. Tuna was surro
above the sea, and was the bleakest place
Tibet. To rest in the houses, bad as
turned out tents, in spite of the cold, whi
and space which we could not leave the
matter of a fire, for only sufficient fuel
be obtained, most of it being yak-dung
to be brought from Chumbi. The su
the grand natural scenery, which was a s
not red. Immediately before us was a
and perfectly smooth gravel plain leve
to walk, and on the far side of this w
sharp top, which forms the main axis o
is said to separate Tibet from Bhuta
world. The air was generally clear, a
Tibet, and well wrapped up, away fro
we are isolated from the terrible w
even in and out of even Tuna. And
morning and night Chumbiants, strong prev
it was bare and spotless in its purity,
there is no awful winter pall.