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0273 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 273 (Color Image)

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[Photo] To face page 224 CAMP NEAR KARO-LA

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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ow the Karo-la, and there b
nger who had carried a stra
to the Yutok She-p's camp b
Tibetan offi... would me
The Tibetans, however b
from the wall on the le st
ls appeared.

as if we were to have m
anbe we had heard that th
o Tibetans, and that there w
d the mounted infantry to
ngly held and fresh with m
. All the villages of wh
e fully expected a fight.
r the pass was right in stra
one of which rose to a hei
sea-level. A magnificent p
ey to within 300 yards of
s desolate in the highest deg
the highroad to Lhasa, the w
hgest little mountain railway
mules and men across it.
d evening of the 17th we
position of the Tibetans. Th
at a narrow gorge three m
h side of the pass, and ther
assable snow mountain. T
nder's time had been extre
ched precipices immediat
nd this lay a sound lin
walls which the Tibeta
places, this was held up
was manned, according to
1,500 Tibetans.
morning of the 18th, a
summer, there was still a
dvance troops marched
Colonel Coper, wer t
er side parties of the 8t