. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. are in the great majorityin all three. In fact, the lowest of them, through which runs the valleypath, is entirely made up of the tombs of infants. We had alreadynoticed burying places in the Shigar valley, entirely filled with thesetiny graves, which speak volumes of the cruel process of selectioninflicted upon this people by the hard climate, their poverty and theunhygienic conditions of their life from infancy upwards. (9221) K 4 152 Chapter TX. In the Indus and
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. are in the great majorityin all three. In fact, the lowest of them, through which runs the valleypath, is entirely made up of the tombs of infants. We had alreadynoticed burying places in the Shigar valley, entirely filled with thesetiny graves, which speak volumes of the cruel process of selectioninflicted upon this people by the hard climate, their poverty and theunhygienic conditions of their life from infancy upwards. (9221) K 4 152 Chapter TX. In the Indus and Shigar valleys the tombs, large and small, con-sisted of slabs of stone planted in the ground or of a low wall enclosing arectangular plot.^ They showed no sign of being regarded with anvspecial reverence-—indeed, so little is this the case that we would findhere and there one of the older and larger graves turned into a diminu-tive kitchen garden. These tombs were scattered haphazard over anyopen space, mostly under the trees, and not within any tombs at Chongo are quite different. The low wall is replaced. CHILDREN S CRAVES AT CHONOO. by a rectangular fence of little wooden beams fitted into four squarecorner posts, whose tops are cut in the shape of a die or a most interesting of the three cemeteries is the highest. It is nowplainly abandoned, the wall which once enclosed it partly in ruins, andof the door only the wooden frame is left. Within this enclosure area dozen tombs surrounded by the small wooden railing just describedand a few others, so much larger as to seem monumental by comparison,these latter consisting of clay brick walls strengthened at the corners • See illustration of the Parkutta cemetery, p. 120. * We occasionally met with an isolated tomb adorned with one or tv\-o upright poles hungabout with rags ; the grave of some saint, but held in far less veneration than similar buryingplaces in Central Asia.
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