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  • A Lama, who is the head man of the place, came out to greet us, with his family and a whole troop of villagers; they were the same class of people as I have elsewhere described as Cis-nivean

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Their physiognomy is however so Tibetan in its character, that it cannot be supposed that this was their earliest intercourse with the trans-nivean races: whether they may have wandered from beyond the snows before the spread of Boodhism and its civilisation, or whether they are a cross between the Tamulian of

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Early spring rains have lead to the "washout" of sub-nivean (sub snow level) lairs of ringed seals (

    Green Options 2009

  • Early spring rains have lead to the "washout" of sub-nivean (sub snow level) lairs of ringed seals (

    Green Options 2009

  • Early spring rains have lead to the "washout" of sub-nivean (sub snow level) lairs of ringed seals (

    Green Options 2009

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