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The progress of tlie Kashmir Series. [No. 2, 
another 8, and another no more than 4 days. The last being only 
known to the natives of the country and not to the merchants who 
go to Yarkand. The man who gave the above said he had gone by 
the Nagar and Gilgit routes. 
(Sd.) II. H. G. A. 
Hovte from Kashmir to Gilgit via Gurais and Astor. 
No. of 
Marches. 
Dstanee 
in 
Miles. 
Names of 
halting-places. 
Remakes, 
Srinagar to, 
1 
Sinbul, 
2 
Bundipoor, 
3 
Trakbul, 
4 
Jotkusu, 
Cross the Kashmir ridge. 
5 
Kanzlawan, 
6 
Gurais, 
12 
Astor, 
Cross the'Himalayan watershed 
during 3rd march. 
16 
Boonjee, 
22 
Gilgit, 
Cross the Indus by boat close to 
Boonjee. 
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Total ... 22 
marches. 
The routes given from Hoonza to Yarkand (though the 4 days 
may be apocryphal) all tend to shew that Yarkand must be nearer 
the longitude of Skardo than of Leh, the latter route being reckoned 
at least 16 days from the Karakoram ridge ; and the 4 days may he 
given on the strength of the wonderful rapidity with which the 
Hoonza-Nagar people got warning of the Kafilas leaving Yarkand, 
so quickly indeed was this given that the Hunza-Nagris were able to 
make all their arrangements in Hunza and then to cross into the 
Shigar valley and still be in time to rob the Kafilas before they reached 
the inhabited parts of Ladak and Balti. 
T. G. Montgomekie, Cap. Enges. 
