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SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



noise inseparable from the beginning of the operation of 

 sending our things across. The kikas of stores, the 

 servants' tents, etc., were despatched by Abdulla, on the 

 backs of our yak drivers, before we were up. The men 

 seemed rather to enjoy the fun, for they went over 



A Zak on the Indus. 



laughing and singing, and appeared to consider the whole 

 affair a joke. 



After we got up the process of transfer continued, 

 everything being deposited on an island about half-way 

 across. Meanwhile the fittinof tOQCther of the zak on 



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the opposite side of the river was going on, and about 

 nine o'clock, when it was completed, the removal from 

 the island to the right bank of the river, of the baggage 

 accumulated on the former, began. This went on till 

 eleven, the things being partly taken over on men's 



