. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. r like a lion tamer at a fair. The interpreter was a fat giant withbloodshot eyes and an apoplectic face with a fringe of beard dyed withhenna. There was a Jemadar or police official, and under his orderswere five Chuprassis, in addition to the Zaildar of Gunderbal and theLambardars of the villages from which the coolies came. The chief officials took their orders from the Duke and transmittedthem in regular hierarchical order. In spite of these complicatedarrangem
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. r like a lion tamer at a fair. The interpreter was a fat giant withbloodshot eyes and an apoplectic face with a fringe of beard dyed withhenna. There was a Jemadar or police official, and under his orderswere five Chuprassis, in addition to the Zaildar of Gunderbal and theLambardars of the villages from which the coolies came. The chief officials took their orders from the Duke and transmittedthem in regular hierarchical order. In spite of these complicatedarrangements the functions of the caravan were carried out with greatregularity and precision and perfect discipline. (9221) n .3 .14 Chapter IV The day was cloudy and cool, with a few intervals of hot afternoon was laborious. We had to pay and dismiss the ponydrivers who had come fiom Gunderbal—two stages at half a rupeeper stage and per horse. The intermediaries are so numerous thatthe best policy is to pay the coolies direct in person and one by system is being generally adopted by European travellers, who. THE MONEY KILTAS, AND PAYING THE COOLIES. used to trust to the Tehsildar or Lambardar to divide the sum betweenthe men. The Duke had decided to follow the method adopted by theEckenstein-Pfannl-Guillarmod expedition, of giving each coolie a numberedmetal counter, which he has to hand in against his wages. This enabledthe payments to proceed rapidly, and made the supervision simple andeasy. The chief drawback was the necessity of carrying an immenseweight of money divided into single rupees and fractions of rupees. Oursmall change occupied nine kiltas and weighed over 450 lbs. TIr Siiul \alley. 55 The Duke always superintended the arranging and counting of thehiggage : 171 packages were distributed among the same number ofcoolies, who left at once so as to divide the party and make its move-ments quicker. As each coolie passes with his load he receives hisn
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