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AFOOT THROUGH THE 



as often freed by the active natives running along the 

 water's edge, spaces of cultivated ground often gay with 

 the yellow flower of the rape wherever the karewas 

 presented surface enough, and at long intervals villages 

 of square, wooden cabins and carved boxlike shrines in 

 a setting of great trees with flowery undergrowth of 



Logs ready to be floated down stream 



hawthorn, filling all the air with its sweetness, wild 

 daphne and lilacs. 



A "jhula," or rope bridge, spanned the river at 

 one place, and had an unpleasantly " temporary " air ; 

 one strand acted as footboard, two others supplied 

 support for the hands, and then all were free to " hold 

 hard" or drop off, and I guessed which my unwilling 

 choice would have been had I been forced to attempt 

 its passage! All the modern Kashmirian structures 



