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Photograph by Fred Bremner 



A DAUGHTER OF NOAH ON DAL LAKE I KASHMIR 



Conservative, clever, contented, the Kashmiris have remained unchanged amid successive 

 invasions. The boatmen and their wives lay claim to inherited skill in their craft, naming 

 that Ancient Mariner, Noah, as their ancestor. Srinagar is subject to periodic floods, and the 

 story of the Ark sounds more familiar to its people than to the Rajputs of the barren plain. 



