80 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



I found only two small isolated communities of 

 Hindi! Kunaits, the one at Shaso and the other 

 at Namgea. The gnew tree, or edible pine (Pinus 

 Gerardina), under some of which I camped at Jangi, 

 extends higher up than does the deodar. I saw 

 some specimens of it opposite Pii at about 12,000 

 feet. The edible portion is the almond-shaped seeds, 

 which are to be found within the cells of the cone, 

 and which contain a sweet whitish pulp that is not 

 unpleasant to the taste. This tree is similar to the 

 Italian Pinus pinea ; and varieties of it are found 

 in California, and in Japan where it is called the 

 ginlco. 



The road to Lippe, though bad and fatiguing, 

 presented nothing of the dangers of the preceding 

 day, and took us away from the Sutlej valley up the 

 right bank of the Pijar, also called Teti, river. In 

 colder weather, when the streams are either frozen or 

 very low, the nearest way from Jangi to Shipki is to 

 go all the way up the Sutlej valley to Pu ; but in 

 summer that is impossible, from the size and violence 

 of the streams, which are swollen by the melting 

 snows. At this large village a woman was brought 

 to me who had been struck on the head by a falling 

 rock about a year before. It was a very extraordinary 

 case, and showed the good effects of mountain air and 

 diet, because a piece of the skull had been broken off 

 altogether at the top of her head, leaving more than 

 a square inch of the brain exposed, with only a thin 



