item: #1 of 8
          id: 22210
      author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
       title: In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release
        date: None
       words: 151819
      flesch: 77
     summary: I was provided with a very light mountain _tente-d'abri_ seven feet long, four feet wide, and three feet high. Rajiwar:_ head of kingdom.
    keywords: 8vo; arms; black; body; british; butter; camp; case; chanden; chapter; cloth; clothes; cold; country; course; crown; cut; day; days; direction; edition; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; following; food; foot; good; great; guard; hair; half; hands; head; high; hill; hours; house; illustration; jong; journey; lake; lamas; landor; left; legs; lhassa; life; little; man; mansarowar; mansing; men; miles; moment; morning; mountain; natives; near; net; night; north; number; pass; pen; people; place; point; pombo; ponies; range; red; rifle; river; road; round; sahib; sheep; shokas; silver; sing; small; snow; soldiers; south; spot; stones; stream; taklakot; tarjum; tea; tent; tibetan; time; track; village; water; way; white; wilson; wind; women; work; yaks
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 27021
      author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
       title: An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
        date: None
       words: 75411
      flesch: 82
     summary: They punched and kicked them, driving them down a steep ravine leading to a river; then, assisted by other men in camp, showered stones upon them. FOOTNOTES: In their belts the Jogpas, in common with the majority of Tibetan men, wore a sword in front.
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 32752
      author: Millington, Powell
       title: To Lhassa at Last
        date: None
       words: 35078
      flesch: 74
     summary: In fact, from here onwards for many days to come, there seemed very little chance of obtaining any grazing for our animals. There were many officers so adorned who made excellent gamekeepers or gillies, and in particular I remember a certain stalwart major whose beard grew in two inverted horns that splayed outwards on his chest, and who was the very image of my father's old gardener.
    keywords: 8vo; book; british; camp; case; chapter; chumbi; column; country; course; crossing; day; days; enemy; feet; gnatong; gyantse; having; india; jong; lake; left; lhassa; life; man; march; men; miles; mule; night; officer; place; pony; post; river; road; tibetan; time; transport; tsampa; valley; water; way
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 33359
      author: Candler, Edmund
       title: The Unveiling of Lhasa
        date: None
       words: 74875
      flesch: 72
     summary: The guards of a pass are punished for letting white men through, quite irrespective of the opposing odds. They were being hustled by white men who did not draw knives or fire guns.
    keywords: action; advance; attack; british; camp; captain; chinese; chumbi; city; colonel; companies; country; cut; dalai; day; days; enemy; expedition; feet; fire; force; frontier; general; government; gurkhas; gyantse; half; hills; house; india; infantry; jong; karo; lama; left; lhasa; life; line; man; men; miles; mission; monastery; morning; mountain; pass; people; phari; pioneers; place; plain; position; post; right; river; road; round; shot; thought; tibetans; time; trade; transport; treaty; troops; valley; village; wall; way; yards; years; younghusband
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 42146
      author: Thomson, Thomas
       title: Western Himalaya and Tibet A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India During the Years 1847-8
        date: None
       words: 152805
      flesch: 69
     summary: As it may fairly be inferred that the lake was quite fresh at the time when it was inhabited by _Lymnææ_ and _ Indeed, a super-abundance of water is in general indicated by the swampy banks of the irrigation canals, as the water, oozing through the loose gravel of the platforms, produces a dense jungle of _Hippophaë_ scrub, which makes the cultivated tracts conspicuous, even in winter, when the trees are bare of leaves and the fields of crops.
    keywords: appearance; ascent; august; bank; bare; bed; clay; close; country; course; cultivation; day; deep; descent; direction; distance; east; elevation; feet; fine; forest; general; glacier; good; height; hills; himalaya; indus; iskardo; journey; kashmir; lake; left; level; little; low; miles; mountains; narrow; north; nubra; open; parts; pass; place; plain; plants; range; ravine; ridge; right; river; road; rocky; rose; shayuk; sidenote; sides; slope; snow; south; species; steep; stream; surface; sutlej; tibet; time; trees; upper; valley; vegetation; view; village; water; west
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 43497
      author: Hedin, Sven Anders
       title: Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 168656
      flesch: 77
     summary: Good day, Abdullah, I said to him, for I immediately recognized the honest fellow who had helped me up over the snowfields of the Zoji-la on the former occasion. But we knew nothing, and spent the last day of January quietly in camp No. 119.
    keywords: air; ali; animals; bank; black; blue; boat; camp; caravan; chang; chapter; chinese; chu; cold; country; course; dark; day; days; distance; east; evening; eyes; feet; fire; foot; good; great; ground; half; head; holy; horses; hours; ice; illustration; india; isa; journey; ladak; lake; lama; land; lay; left; leh; lhasa; life; long; look; lunpo; man; march; men; monastery; monks; morning; mountains; muhamed; mules; new; night; north; open; pass; people; place; point; red; rest; river; road; robert; saw; set; sheep; shigatse; shore; snow; south; stone; storm; sun; tashi; tashi lama; tea; tent; tibet; tibetans; time; tsangpo; tsering; tso; valley; water; way; west; white; wind; work; yaks; years; yellow
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 43549
      author: Hedin, Sven Anders
       title: Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 173060
      flesch: 79
     summary: INDEX Abbot, a twelve-year-old, ii. 163 Abdul Kerim, my caravan leader, ii. 226; error of, as to forage, 241; assumes rôle of master of caravan, 291, 344; ideas as to the time of day, 302; despatched in charge of second division of caravan to the Tarok-tso, 371; anxiety as to whereabouts of, 396; arrives at our camp at Ratse, 399; bid farewell to, with other five of my followers, 416 Absi, peak of the Kubi-gangri, ii. 102 Abuk-la pass, ii. 396 Adam, Colonel, military secretary to the Viceroy, i. 16 Age, average, of caravan, i. 53 Aid, Mohammedan festival celebrated in camp, i. 191 Aksai-chin, lake, unannexed region of, i. 93, 95, 98; ii. 258 Alchi, dangerous bridge at, i. 44 Alexander the Great, i. 3; ii. 213 Amban Lien Yü, of Lhasa, i. 393, 400 Amchen-la pass, ii. 396 Amchi-lama (monk-doctor), tent-temple of, ii. 296 Amchok-tang, plain, ii. 36 Amchok-tso, lake, ii. 36; camp at, 37; shallowness of, 38; soundings on, 39 Amchok-yung, village of, ii. 36 Amchung country, interesting information acquired in, ii. 325 Amitabha, the Tashi Lama the incarnation of, i. 326 Amusements, Tibetan, i. 341 Anchar, lake, i. 32 Angden-la pass, cairn with prayer-streamers on, ii. 34; panoramic view from, 35; not situated on same range as the Samye-la, 330 Angsi-chu, river, ii. 104 Antelope Plain, name given by Captain Deasy, i. 142 Antelopes, i. 92, 114, 175, 186; ii. 36, 262, 282; method of snaring, i. 119; ii. 274 Aong-tsangpo, river, ii. 399 Archery and shooting competitions on horseback, i. 343 Argok-tso, lake, ii. 400 Arnold, _ The Light of Asia_, quotation from, ii. 206 Arport-tso, lake, crossing of ice of, ii. 263 Arung-kampa, deserted village of, i. 280 Asses, wild, upright position of frozen, ii. 95; great herds met with, 285 Atkinson, Mr. E. T., work by, cited, ii. 402 Bailey, Lieutenant, Acting Resident at Gyangtse, i. 255 Balls, State, in Simla, i. 17; ii. 420 Baltal, i. 38 Bando, camp at, ii. 83 Barley, roasted, a delicacy, ii. 14 Barong-la pass, ii. 30 Basang valley, camp in, ii. 46 Basgho-gompa, monastery, i. 44 Bed, method of making my, i. 150 Ben-la pass, storm on, ii. 34 Besant, Mrs. Annie, i. 30 Bibles, the Tibetan, in library of Tashi-lunpo, i. 333; in Tashi-gembe, 412 Biographical details of caravan, i. 151-153 Birch bark, dream suggested by, ii. 95 Boat, our portable, i. 28; successful trip of, 107; description of Tibetan, 288 Bogtsang-tsangpo, the, camp at, i. 205; interview with chief of district, 205; geographical information obtained, 206; erratic course of, 207 Bokar valley, ii. 212 _
    keywords: abdul; animals; author; bank; black; boat; brahmaputra; camp; caravan; chang; chapter; chu; clouds; cold; country; course; dark; day; days; dzong; east; evening; feet; fire; foot; gangri; gompa; great; gulam; half; head; high; himalaya; holy; horses; ice; illustration; journey; kerim; la pass; lake; lama; lay; left; life; little; long; man; march; men; monastery; monks; morning; mountain; near; new; night; nomads; north; northern; old; pass; place; point; river; road; robert; round; route; saka; saw; set; sheep; shore; snow; source; south; spring; storm; sun; tashi; tea; temperature; tent; tibet; tibetan; time; trans; tsangpo; tsering; tso; valley; view; village; water; waves; way; west; white; wild; wind; yaks; year
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 48882
      author: White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
       title: The Mystery of the Ravenspurs A Romance and Detective Story of Thibet and England
        date: None
       words: 91554
      flesch: 91
     summary: One by one the company rose until the room was deserted, save for Ralph Ravenspur and his nephew Geoffrey. The exercise caused her to glow and tingle, and all the way it never occurred to her how silent and abstracted Geoffrey had become. CHAPTER VI ABELL CARRIES OUT HIS ERRAND When Ralph Ravenspur reached the basement, his whole aspect had changed.
    keywords: castle; chapter; course; danger; dark; day; dead; dear; door; end; eyes; face; family; geoffrey; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; kind; life; lips; look; marion; matter; mind; moment; mrs; night; people; princess; ralph; ralph ravenspur; ravenspur; room; tchigorsky; thing; time; uncle; vera; way; white; woman; years
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