PHOTOGRAPHS 191 



had long been waiting for, containing films for my kodak. 

 The parcel had left Srinagar, addressed to me at Skardo, 

 on the 8th of April ! The post coolie brought with him 

 a local man from Bunji to help in carrying some stores, 

 which my wife had succeeded, after much trouble, in 

 having conveyed to that place for me. Amongst them 

 was the telescope, to which I have already referred, as a 

 thing that I wanted very badly indeed. 



On the 4th I told the shikari to move the tents to 

 the place at which we had halted on the 27th of May, 

 and then spent the morning in taking photographs of the 

 valley and the snow-clad peaks around. The Haramosh 

 peak was everywhere visible, but we were too close under 

 it to get a really good view. There were a couple of 

 pretty little lakelets, surrounded by pine woods and 

 grassy banks, at one side of the glacier ; for this branch 

 nala gets very wide a short distance from its junction 

 with the northern branch, and continues so till closed by 

 the snowy slopes which surround the source of its 

 stream. Unfortunately none of these photographs proved 

 successful. 



Below the village the glen widens out into an open 

 park-like country, with rolling uplands of short grass, 

 gay with flowers, and with stately cedars, pines, and 

 other trees dotted about. Cattle were grazing on these 

 pastures as I went by, and I wondered at the contrast 

 between this scene and the great glacier, which but a 

 short distance off, was grinding its slow course down its 

 rocky channel. 



We had breakfast in a wood above Goru, a small 

 village some miles higher up the nala than Barchu. From 



