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and keeping the horses at full gallop is by far the most 

 comfortable motion for passengers. Nothing can be sim- 

 pler than the harness. One horse carries a saddle to sup- 

 port the shafts, a crupper, and a padded chest strap, to 

 which are fastened the traces ; and the other has merely 

 the chest strap. Horses are changed every six miles, and, 

 as the coachman blows his horn as soon as he gets within 

 earshot of the changing place, two fresh horses are ready 

 by the time the cart is brought to a standstill. Two 

 minutes effect the change, and off the cart is again at a 

 hand gallop. A fifteen mile ride from the trunk road, 

 where we left the cart, took us to our destination, the 

 junction of the Poonah and Jhelum, about twenty miles 

 north of the town of Jhelum. 



The Poonah rises in the Pir Punjal, a Himalayan range 

 to the south of the Kashmir Valley, and after a course 

 of 120 miles or so, falls into the Jhelum. In spring-time 

 the Poonah is about the size of the Tweed at Cold-stream, 

 but the pools are deeper, and the streams more rapid, I 

 fancy; they run about a mile an hour quicker than in 

 the Tweed. We reached our camp about five in the even- 

 ing, in high spirits, the weather looking very promising, 

 though the water was lower than we quite liked. Our 

 tents were pitched close to the junction. Our servants 

 had all arrived, and were busily preparing dinner; so we 

 employed our time in putting our rods together (Irish 

 rods, preferable to all others when ready, but trouble- 

 some to put together), and strolled up the river to view 

 the scene of our exploits of the previous year. As fish- 



