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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS. CHRIST. of thc samc name, onc sccs two convents, on one of which our traveler was surprised to see foating a French Aag, a present, he afterward learned, from a French engineer and used by the monks simply as a decoration.
M. Notovitch spent the night at thic village and visited these contents where the monks took great dclight in showing their visitor their books, rolis, images of Buddha, and the prayer-whecis, cxplaining politely and patiently all thc sacred objects. Here, also, M. Notovitch received the same answers in reply to his inquiries, i.c., that the great monastcrics alone possessed copics relating to the prophct Issa.
From hcrc the traveler hastened on towards Leh, with no other object now than to secure a copy of the Buddhist records of the life of Jesus, which might perlaps, he thought, show the inner life of the best of men ind completc thc details so indistinct 'which the Scriptures give us about him.
On his arrival at Lch, M. Notovitch put up at the bungalow, specially built for Europcans who come over thic Indian route in the hunting season.
Lch, the capital of Ladak, is a small town of five thousand inhabitants. It is built on pinnacles of rock. liron a clistance it has an imposing appearance which it owes entirely to the palace, built on a slight eminence, possessing in front of two hundred and fifty fect, and which is sereistorics high. Iligh above it, on the summit olil rocky mountain, is a monastery with its painted battlements and flags. In thic centre of thic town is a squarc, or market placc, where merchants of India, China, Turkistan, Kastmir and Thibct, come to exchange their products for Thibctan gold.
The governor of Ladak, Vizier Surajbal, who has taken his lcgrce as Doctor of Philosopliy in London, resides in il vast two-storicd building in the centre of
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