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little houses at the junction of the streams, the force
moved on to Saugang.
Just before this point is reached, deeply-cut figures
of Buddha in the spurs on the eastern cliff-side remind
one of the descriptions of earlier travellers. The night
The rock-cut Buddhas at the north entrance to Red Idol Gorge.
was spent at Saugang, and by the latest reports, subject
in some cases to the slight modifications required
by the personal element, about a hundred and eighty
Tibetans seem to have been killed at this point. On
the next day we moved on along the alternate narrows
and alluvial ledges of the Nyang chu, passing the rui-ned
jong upon the conical hill in mid-road, the ice curtain
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