280 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



It is the abode of numerous bats, and the rock in 

 many places is beautifully honeycombed by the action 

 of water, which is constantly trickling from the higher 

 portions of the roof." The water does trickle down 

 upon one beautifully, but the honeycombing of the 

 rock is the deposits of lime made by the water ; and 

 even within the 200 feet a sense of pressure is ex- 

 perienced from the rock-walls. Of course I was told 

 all sorts of stories as to what Jies beyond, such as 

 great galleries, halls, sculptures, inscriptions, rivers, 

 waterfalls, evil demons, gods, goddesses, and so forth. 

 All this sounded very interesting and enticing ; but 

 worming along a small aperture is by no means suited 

 to my constitution or tastes, so I resisted the tempta- 

 tion, and said to myself, " Let General Cunningham 

 creep up it : he is paid for looking after the archae- 

 ology of India." About fifty feet from the entrance 

 of this passage, and opening from the left of it, there 

 is a small cave-temple. In a still smaller excavated 

 room nearer the entrance there are the bones of a 

 human being ; but skeletons are not scarce in Kash- 

 mir, and no particular antiquarian interest attaches 

 to these remains. Another cave in the immediate 

 neighbourhood, which is reached by ladders and very 

 steep stone steps, shows more traces of human work- 

 manship. This is called the Temple Gave. At its 

 entrance there is a fine trefoil arch, and on one of 

 the platforms inside there is what Ince speaks of as 

 " a Hindu" temple built of stone, of pyramidal shape, 



