THROUGH FOREST AND JUNGLE IN KASHMIR AND 

 OTHER PARTS OF NORTH INDIA 



By Casey A. Wood 



[With 2 plates] 



The man in whom that uneasy affection Wanderkist has developed 

 must feel a thrill if, without warning, he comes across Richard 

 Hovey's Sea Gypsy. Its call is even more alluring than Kipling's 

 Road to Mandalay, and it might be read as a prelude to that 

 immortal poem : 



I am fevered with the sunset, 



I am fretful with the bay, 

 For the wander-thirst is on me 



And my soul is in Cathay. 



There's a schooner in the ofRng, 



With her topsails shot with fire. 

 And my heart has gone aboard her 



For the Islands of Desire. 



I must forth again tomorrow ! 



With the sunset I must be 

 Hull-down on the trail of rapture 



In the wonder of the sea. 



In any event, I may be pardoned for quoting it as an introduction 

 to some of the wonderful natural beauties that one encounters in 

 the far-off jungle lands that border on central Asia. 



If one were to draw a line (over 1,600 miles long) from Kabul 

 in Afghanistan to and along the southern frontier of Bhutan and 

 another one following the northern aspects of the Himalayas from 

 the western outlet of the Khyber Pass to the upper border of Bhutan, 

 it would inclose an irregularly curved parallelogram that frames 

 one of the most important physical and historical areas in the wide 

 world. At intervals during many centuries there migrated, by way 

 of wild passes that double and twist their sinuous paths over the 

 mightiest of mountain ranges, peoples of many northern types 

 who fought their way into the fertile plains of Hindustan. Greeks, 

 Persians, Afghans, Parthians, and many minor tribes contended for 

 the mastery of the industrious but less warlike inhabitants of north 

 and middle India. As the tides of invasion ebbed and flowed the 

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