Note 1 — Ladak and the Monastery of Hemis.
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Of this custom Turner remarks, alluding to Thibet Proper:—“Here we find a practice at once different from the modes of Europe, and opposite to those of Asia. That of one female associating her fate and fortune with all the brothers of a family, without any restriction of age or numbers. The choice of a wife is the privilege of the elder brother; and singular as it may seem, a Thibetan wife is as jealous of her connubial rites as ever the despot of an Indian Zenana is of the favours of his imprisoned fair.” ↑