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SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR 



came on water again 



When we did, however, it was 

 curiously abundant, and exceedingly clear and cold. 

 Having walked over a stony river-bed for some time after 

 the Kharnak water had ceased, we turned a corner and 

 came on something like half a dozen springs, bubbling 

 up amongst the stones. Here we sat down under a tall 

 rock and had breakfast, a fine view of exquisitely tinted 



Two Chami'as Rupsang 



Champa 



Hade Husei.n 



Servants cooking Breakfast at Dhad. 



crags being before us at our meal. This place, we were 

 informed, is locally known as Dhad. 



About 2 miles lower down we came on a lonely 

 Lamasery, and a little further, on a Buddhist shrine 

 decked with burhel horns, coloured rags, and poles 

 ornamented with yaks' tails. The valley narrowed con- 

 siderably a little above this spot, the river, which had 



