912 Journal of a trip through Kunawur, [Nov. 



soap as will tinge the water of a whitish colour, produces a dye like 

 anotta; the husks only, in the same manner with cold water and 

 soap, produce a dye more or less bright according to the age of the 

 husk. Both are permanent and will dye silk or cotton, as much 

 of the liquor as will run clear being poured off when sufficiently dark." 



During the past night at Sarahun we experienced some heavy show- 

 ers of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning which cooled the air, 

 and gave us a delightful day to travel in. Many of the heights which 

 before had begun to look black from the melting of the snows, were 

 now again completely covered with a sheet of dazzling whiteness. The 

 day continued cloudy with some heavy showers in the afternoon, and 

 snow appeared to be falling heavily over all the neighbouring peaks. 



Several flocks of sheep and goats passed our encampment during the 

 day, on their way from Rampore to the upper parts of Kunawur; 

 each animal was laden with flour, which is carried in small bags 

 thrown across their backs and confined there by a crupper and band 

 across the chest, with another under the belly, answering the purpose 

 of a girth. Each carries according to its strength from six to twenty 

 seers* in weight, and they form the chief beasts of burthen throughout 

 the country, travelling ten and twelve miles daily with ease and safety 

 over rocky parts where mules and horses could not obtain a footing. 



From this encampment we continued our march, still through the 

 forest, to the village of Tranda ; the road in many places was very 

 precipitous and rocky, and numerous rudely constructed flights of 

 steps occurred at those places where the ascent was too abrupt and 

 rocky to cut a road. Before climbing the last steep hill to Tranda we 

 came to a deep glen, with a roaring torrent hurling itself along 

 towards the Sutledge with headlong fury ; over this had once been a 

 goodly sangho bridge, composed of three trees thrown across from 

 rock to rock, with planks of wood nailed transversely across them, 

 but the weight of the winter snows had thrown the bridge all on one 

 side with an awkward slope to the gulph below, and had torn half the 

 planks away, leaving wide intervals at which there was nothing left 

 to walk on but the round trunk of a single tree ; and the dazzling foam 

 of the waters seen beneath as the torrent rushed along, imparted to 

 the passenger the feeling, that the crazy bridge was gliding from 

 beneath his feet, and made it dangerous to attempt the passage. 

 Two only of my people crossed it, and they were laughed at for their 

 folly. 



* A seer is 2 lbs. 



