1912
The people of these parts differ very much from the rest of the Tibetans in their stature features dress customs and in the manner of speaking the Tibetan language. [...] The first is the residence of the commanding officer called the Kh'arpon of Tsaprany and the second is a large monastery and the seat of a Ltimit styled the IC'hanpo of Tholing. [...] L. WO is the capital of Ladak the residence of the prince and the emporium of a considerable trade with Turkistan Lhassa and the Panjab countries. [...] July 4t11.i In the 9th volume of the (;vut class of the Kaligyur occurs the original of a Tibetan fragment. [...] ('optic and Syriac and compares these Tibetan haractem to the mystic numbers and letters of the acient Scythians and Egyptians and of some of the early Sectarians and Heretics of the Christian Church.