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0063 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
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CHAPTER II

TO ASTOR AND GILGIT

When I awoke in the
morning my boat had just
entered the lagoons which fringe on the east the great Volur
Lake. A look towards the mountain range which rises
above it on the north showed that the heavy rain of the
last few days meant fresh snow on the passes I had to
cross. Bandipur village, which forms as it were the port for
the route connecting Kashmir with Gilgit and the regions
beyond, was soon reached. It appeared as I had seen it
in 1889 on my march to Skardo, pre-eminently a place

*differtum nantis cauponibus atque malignis.*

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