knowledge of the life and problems of the frontier.
This information has now been supplemented by a trip
in Western Tibet.
On this expedition, in addition to my usual staff, I
was accompanied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff, of the Alpine
RAI SAHIB PU N D IT GOB ARIA
A rich Bhotia trader, one of the interpreters
Club, who had with him two Alpine guides, Alexis
Brocherel and his brother Henri Brocherel, of Cour-
mayeur in Italy, and also by the Tahsildar Kharak
Sing Pal, formerly for ten years Political Peshkar on
the frontier, with his brother Jagat Sing, the present
Political Peshkar. Both these latter are cousins of the
Raj bar of Askot, whose territory of Askot is so situated
as to command all the principal passes into Tibet, as well
as the Kali River, which is our frontier against Nepal.
