DULAI DAK-BUNGALOW 



flows immediately in front. We arrived about 1.30 p.m., 

 and as there was no special object in hurrying on, and 

 our ekkas could not get farther that day, we decided to 

 halt. On the way we passed a prettily- situated dak- 

 bungalow at Dulai, which I photographed when return- 

 ing from Srinagar in December. In the evening we 



DuLAi Rest-house for Travellers on the Srinagar-Rawal Pindi Road. 



walked up the river a short distance and saw a rope 

 bridge ^ for the first time, a structure described later on. 

 The one at Garhi, though of three main ropes like most 

 of those in Baltistan, differs from them in being made of 

 leather thongs instead of birch twigs. We were glad 

 when we came back to get at some of the luggage in the 

 ekkas, which had in the meantime arrived, for the air 

 was decidedly colder, and we found that the clothes in 



^ See illustiation on p. aS. 



