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Huge red chasms with glacier-fed torrents, occasional snowfields, intense solar heat radiating from dry and verdureless rock, a ravine so steep .and narrow that for miles together there is not space to pitch a five-foot tent, the deafening roar of a river gathering volume and fury as it goes, rare openings, where willows are planted with lucerne in their irrigated shade, among which the traveller camps at night, and over all a sky of pure, intense blue purpling into starry night, were the features of the next three marches, noteworthy chiefly for the exchange of the thundering Dras for the thundering Suru, and for some bad bridges and infamous bits of road before reaching Kargil, where the mountains swing apart, giving space to several villages.

He fixed his eyes upon Bones, licked his lips a little, twiddled his fingers a great deal, and began: "Lord, it is written in a certain Suru that wisdom comest from the East, and that knowledge from the West, that courage comes from the North, and sin from the South." "Steady the Buffs, Bosambo!" murmured Bones, reprovingly, "I come from the South."

"Japanese geisha," said the tea-house girl, "if danna san wish to see geisha dance ?" "No thank you," said Geoffrey, hurriedly, "Asako darling, it is time we went home: we want our dinners." Modashi-ite Sakashira suru wa Sake nomite Yei-naki suru ni Nao shikazu keri. To sit silent And look wise Is not to be compared with Drinking saké And making a riotous shouting.

In passing a caravan near Kargil my servant's horse was pushed over the precipice by a loaded mule and drowned in the Suru, and at another time my Afghan caused the loss of a baggage mule of a Leh caravan by driving it off the track.

This is the work of Somaditya Suru Acharya, a great priest of the pre-Mussulman time, well-known in history. His mantle is still preserved in the temple, and forms the robe of initiation of every new high priest.

The district in which it grew up was called Suru or Suri by the Sumerian inhabitants of Chaldæa a name which may be the origin of the modern "Syria," rather than Assyria, as is usually supposed, and the Semitic Babylonians gave it the title of Subari or Subartu. The conquest of Suri was the work of the last campaign of Sargon of Accad, and laid all northern Mesopotamia at his feet.