Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and KashmirSaunders, Otley, 1862 - 367 pages |
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appearance ascent baggage Balti Bara Lacha Pass Beas river beautiful boat boatmen breakfast bridge Bujjoo called camp capital carried Chenab Chumpa Chunars cold coolies crossed Darjeeling Dilla distance Dogra European foot gardens Gilgit Government green halt hand height hills Himalayas Hindoo houses hundred India Indus Jhelum Kangra Kashgar Kashmir Khan khilta Khoja Koksar Kulu Ladâk Ladakhis ladies Lahoul lake Lamah leave left bank look Maharajah markhor ment mighty miles Mirza Moorcroft morning mountain narrow native never night Nurput Official Friend paddle passed path pitched plain ponies poplars Punjab reached ridge river rivulet road rock round route Rudok sahib Sarepta Schlagentweit servants shawls side Sikhs Simla slope snow soon Sreenuggur steep stone strange stream stretched summit Sutlej Tartar tents Thibetan thick thousand feet tion traveller turban valley village Vulli Yarkund Zorawur Singh
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Page 263 - ... about two feet under the water, so that they completely lose all connexion with the bottom of the lake, but retain their former situation in respect to each other. When thus detached from the soil, they are pressed into somewhat closer contact, and formed into beds of about two yards in breadth, and of an indefinite length. The heads of the sedges, reeds, and other plants of the float are now cut off and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in...
Page 234 - And o'er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and exultation held his way; Till in the vale of Cashmire, far within Its loneliest dell, where odorous plants entwine Beneath the hollow rocks a natural bower, Beside a sparkling rivulet he stretched His languid limbs.
Page 263 - ... with the bottom of the lake, but retain their former situation in respect to each other. When thus detached from the soil they are pressed into somewhat closer contact, and formed into beds of about two yards in breadth, and of an indefinite length.
Page 271 - They are built in the form of a dome, and encircled by a gallery, into which four doors open ; two looking up, or down, the canal, and two leading to bridges that connect the buildings with both banks.
Page 233 - sa bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.
Page 56 - A double thin cord is fastened round the inflated skin, across which the waterman places himself on his chest, holding the string with his left hand, whilst, with his right, he manages a short oar, assisting his passage with his hands and feet. Sometimes a piece of stick is tied in one of the legs, and left projecting from it for the waterman to hold instead of the string. The passenger, with as much baggage as he can carry, sits astride the ferryman's back, with his knees bent, and resting on the...
Page 264 - ... plants are torn off from the bottom, and carried in the boat to the platform, where the weeds are twisted into conical mounds about two feet in diameter at their base, and of the same height, terminating at the...
Page 92 - Humpty together again. ide a cockhorse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse; With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes.
Page 315 - At midnight The moon arose : and lo ! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the. stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base the whirlpools and the waves Bursting and eddying irresistibly Rage and resound for ever.
Page 264 - The farmer has in preparation a large number of cucumber and melon plants, which have been raised under mats, and of these, when they have four leaves, he places three plants in the basin of every cone or mound, of which a double row runs along the edge of every bed, at about two feet distance from each other. No further care is necessary, except that of collecting the fruit, and the expense of preparing the platforms and cones is confined to the value of the labour, which altogether is trifling,...