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The Road to Lamaland — Impressions of a Journey to Western Thibet

1916

They are the trees of those who know the wanderlust the trees of the pilgrim souls for the otheR 28 THE FIRST MARCHES stop °down with the oak and the wInut the apricot and the mulberry or take motors into the pines or very rarely venture timidly into the shadows of the firs. [...] And then came dusk and the stars and the great silence of night in the hills with only the distant murmur of the rushing ice water to lull us to the sleep of the road. [...] Many of them too come in from the Kohistane the lawless patch which lies to the north-west of Kashmir west of Gilgit formed partly by the Indus valley before the river debouches into the Punjab plains and by the highlands to either side a little Alsatia whereto resort the ne'edo-wells of the Gilgit Agency on the one hand and of the Malakand on the other. [...] 66 THE DRAS VALLEY They are Shias whereas the Dards who live among theyi are Sunnis the same as are most of the Muhammadans of India and the adjoining countries and the love of Shia for Sunni is only to be compared with the undying affection of the Irish Catholic for the Presbyterian Ulsterman while as for the things the Sunni says about the Shia and the way in which he will joyfully use fire [...] And so at last—in the white hot sunshine— we came to the rocky point where the dark waters of the Dras river sweep down into the clear foaming rapids of the Suru and just before the junction passed the modern suspension bridge which joins the Dras road to the Skardu one.
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Pages
271
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143059
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x Ganapati view
Chapter I We Take the Road
1-14 Ganapati view
Chapter II The First Marches
15-31 Ganapati view
Chapter III The Zoji La
32-53 Ganapati view
Chapter IV The Dras Valley
54-69 Ganapati view
Chapter V Kargil
70-86 Ganapati view
Chapter VI The Gate of Lamaland
87-103 Ganapati view
Chapter VII Over the Nimaki La
104-120 Ganapati view
Chapter VIII The Photu La and Lamayuru
121-133 Ganapati view
Chapter IX The Indus Valley
134-153 Ganapati view
Chapter X From Nurla to Nyemu
154-167 Ganapati view
Chapter XI We Reach Leh
168-180 Ganapati view
Chapter XII A Glimpse of the Leh Monasteries
181-198 Ganapati view
Chapter XIII The Khardong Pass
199-211 Ganapati view
Chapter XIV A Rest in Leh
212-227 Ganapati view
Chapter XV The Long Road Back to Arcadia
228-246 Ganapati view

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