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  • Knowing that white travelers could never survive in this region, the British Survey Office, located in Dehra Dun recruited and trained native spies in fine arts like learning to walk with a measured stride and counting their steps on prayer beads (modified from the normal 108 beads to 100) for measuring trekking distances; mercury thermometers and barometers for determining altitude, and sextants for measuring location.

    Vitro Nasu » 2006 » November 2006

  • Knowing that white travelers could never survive in this region, the British Survey Office, located in Dehra Dun recruited and trained native spies in fine arts like learning to walk with a measured stride and counting their steps on prayer beads (modified from the normal 108 beads to 100) for measuring trekking distances; mercury thermometers and barometers for determining altitude, and sextants for measuring location.

    The Original Pundits 2006

  • He “died” in Dharmsala but he remained, while still here in Dharmsala, in meditation; then his body was carried to Rajpur in the Dehra Dun area, where it still remained fresh.

    Mind Of Clear Light His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2003

  • He “died” in Dharmsala but he remained, while still here in Dharmsala, in meditation; then his body was carried to Rajpur in the Dehra Dun area, where it still remained fresh.

    Mind Of Clear Light His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2003

  • He “died” in Dharmsala but he remained, while still here in Dharmsala, in meditation; then his body was carried to Rajpur in the Dehra Dun area, where it still remained fresh.

    Mind Of Clear Light His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2003

  • Dehra Dun -248 007 (UP), INDIA; phone 91 135683348; fax 91 135 29944.

    4: Multipurpose trees 1996

  • Now, this was a lie, for Regula had been in work for two months at Dehra, and her chances were good, always supposing that Shackles broke a blood-vessel -- or

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Dehra Dun to hunt for plants and butterflies among the Simla hills.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Now, this was a lie, for Regula had been in work for two months at Dehra, and her chances were good, always supposing that Shackles broke a blood-vessel -- OR BRUNT MOVED ON HIM.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The little Doones would be little Dehra Doones, with a fine Mussoorie _chi-chi_ anent to bring home for the holidays.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

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