Word: baluchistan
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...expedition started in India, and Hindu fanatics, and snake-charmers, and fire-eaters are shown in turn. Then the explorers passed through Baluchistan to the famous Vale of Kashmir, and on the Napal, the mountain country. Passing through giant forests, where the temperature averaged 100 degrees, they finally reached the timber-line; and farther beyond came to the pinnacle-perched Tibetan monasteries. One of these, at a height of 16,000-feet, is the highest abode of living creatures in the world. Here the inhabitants drink immense quantities of tea, and here polyandry the opposite of polygamy is the rule...