Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and KashmirSaunders, Otley, 1862 - 367 pages |
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appearance ascent baggage Balti Bara Lacha Pass Beas river beauty 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 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 Shipkee side Sikhs Simla slope snow soon Sreenuggur steep stone strange stream stretched summit Sutlej Tartar tents Thibet Thibetan thick thousand feet tion travellers turban valley village Vulli Yarkund Zorawur Singh
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Page 238 - The meeting boughs and implicated leaves Wove twilight o'er the Poet's path, as, led By love, or dream, or god, or mightier Death, He sought in Nature's dearest haunt some bank, Her cradle...
Page 274 - Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave,* Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ? Oh ! to see it at sunset, — when warm o'er the lake Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws...
Page 271 - ... 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 244 - 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 278 - The summer-houses are placed in the midst of the canal, consequently surrounded by water, and between the two rows of large poplars planted on either side. 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. The houses consist of a large room in the centre, and of four smaller apartments, one at each corner. The whole of the interior is painted and gilt,...
Page 276 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 271 - The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake of willow driven through it at each end, which admits of its rising and falling in accommodation to the rise and fall of the water.
Page 278 - The entrance from the lake is through a spacious canal, bordered with green turf, and running between two rows of poplars. Its length is about five hundred paces, and it leads to a large summerhouse placed in the middle of the garden. A second canal, still finer than the first, then conducts you to another summer-house at the end of the garden.
Page 334 - There were twenty players on each side, all mounted on ponies and armed with sticks about four feet long, and bent at the lower end. One player took the ball and advanced alone into the middle of the field, where he threw up the ball and as it fell struck it towards one of the goals. The goals were formed of two upright stones placed about twenty-five or thirty feet apart. When the ball was driven through a goal, one of the successful party was obliged to dismount and pick it up, for if the opposite...
Page 66 - 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...