Chapter I: Front Matter

TIBET & NEPAL
PAINTED & DESCRIBED

BY
A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR

PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK
SOHO SQUARE·LONDON·W

Published January 1905

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Yellow Lamas with Prayer-Wheels Frontispiece FACING PAGE 2. The Sacred Swings of Debi Dhura 16 3. An Awkward Moment 22 4. A Daramsalla 30 5. A Moment of Suspense 34 6. Red Lamas 44 7. Tibetan Man spinning Wool 46 8. A Nepalese Shoka 48 9. A Nepalese Lady 52 10. A Nepalese Woman 58 11. A Typical Native of N.W. Nepal 60 12. The Elfrida Landor Glacier, Nepal 64 13. Funnels in the Moraine Ice 68 14. The Armida Landor Glacier, Nepal 70 15. Author’s Camp, Nepal 74 16. One of the Lumpa Peaks and part of the Charles Landor Glacier 78 17. Deep Crevasses in the Glacier Ice 80 18. Rocks of all Sizes rolled with great Force down the Mountain Side 82 19. The Birth of an Avalanche 84 20. A Perilous Crossing 86 21. A. Henry Savage Landor and the Four Men who accompanied him on his Ascent to 23,490 feet above Sea-Level 90 22. The Highest Mountain Altitude ever reached by a Human Being 92 23. Within an Ace of being precipitated some 6500 feet on to the Glacier below 96 24. The Lumpa Basin and Charles Landor Glacier 98 25. A Balancing Feat 100 26. Moraine of Glacier and Mountains, showing how Clouds form on the Snow-Line 102 27. Erecting Chokdens (Cairns) on the Savage Pass 106 28. Night-marching in a Storm 108 29. A Sea of Mist 110 30. Elongated Shadows on a Sea of Mist 112 31. Concentric Circles of Radiant Beauty formed by the Sun shining through Mist 114 32. Clouds forming on the Snow-Line 116 33. Author’s Tents. A Camp in Nepal 118 34. The Tinker Pass, Nepal-Tibet 122 35. Flying Prayers and a Mani Wall 124 36. A Tibetan Baby Girl 126 37. A Tibetan Girl 128 38. Tibetan Woman of the Commoner Class 130 39. Tibetan Lady 132 40. An Old Lady and her Prayer-Wheel 134 41. Tibetan Dogs 136 42. A Tibetan Camp of Black Tents 138 43. Interior of a Tibetan Tent, showing Churn for mixing Tea with Butter 140 44. A Little Boy learning to Pray 142 45. Interior of Tibetan Temple 144 46. Tibetan Women weaving 146 47. Tibetan Women cleaning Wool 148 48. A Lama Standard-Bearer 150 49. A Race for the Kata 154 50. Tibetan Soldier at Target Practice 156 51. Tibetan Woman using a Sling for throwing Stones 158 52. Tibetan Games. Stone-Throwing 160 53. Tobogganing made easy 162 54. Tibetan Dance with Sword and Kata (Veil of Friendship) 164 55. A Typical Tibetan 166 56. Woman and Child praying before a Shrine inside a Tent 170 57. Tibetan Boy in his Gold-embroidered Hat 172 58. A Brigand 174 59. A Tibetan Spy in the Disguise of a Beggar approaching the Author’s Camp 176 60. “Chakzal, Chakzal.” The Tibetan Salutation 178 61. A Picturesque Old Fellow 180 62. An Ambidexter Lama Sculptor carving an Inscription on the Face of a Rock 182 63. A Weird Old Man of N.W. Nepal 186 64. Over a Pass in a Coming Storm 188 65. Calling Two Followers lost in the Storm 190 66. Tibetan Goat 192 67. A Troublesome Descent on Vertical Rocks 194 68. A Phantom Lion of Gigantic Proportions 198 69. The Nui Glacier 202 70. Ascent to the Nui Pass 204 71. Observations for Altitude taken under Difficulties on the Nui Pass, Darma 208 72. A Shrine of Curious Buddha Images 212 73. The Sacrifice of a Yak 222 74. Goats carrying Loads of Borax 224 75. Yaks and Ponies conveying Wool across the Frontier 226