. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. on their own axis, following the cadencewith the rliytlimic motions of the arms and head common to all Orientaldancing. At four oclock in the afternoon a game of polo was organized in honourof the Duke. Twelve players took part. In the excitement of thegame horses and men totally changed their aspect. It seems strangethat a game which requires so much pluck, strength and dexterityshould have been evolved among a people of timid disposition, andin so many ways rough
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. on their own axis, following the cadencewith the rliytlimic motions of the arms and head common to all Orientaldancing. At four oclock in the afternoon a game of polo was organized in honourof the Duke. Twelve players took part. In the excitement of thegame horses and men totally changed their aspect. It seems strangethat a game which requires so much pluck, strength and dexterityshould have been evolved among a people of timid disposition, andin so many ways rough and primitive. It is, however, improbable 122 Chapter \I1I. that polo was, as Ujfalvv would have us beheve, inveuted in Baltistan,a country so rough that, with few exceptions, there is no place forgalloping outside the polo grounds themselves, which are levelled andbeaten on purpose. The origin of the game is certainly remote. Itseems to have been common at the court of the Mogols. Then thetradition was lost in India, and only kept up at Manipur (on the con-fines of Burma), in Baltistan, Ladakh and Gilgit. ^ The English of. A IOLO CAME. Calcutta learned the game in Manipur, and were so attracted by itsfine and manly quahties that they made it their own and have diffusedit throughout the world. About eight miles below Parkutta the Indus meets one of its greatestconfluents, the river Shyok, which comes down from the Dapsangtable-land, gathering in its course of nearly 400 miles the waters of thenumberless glaciers which flow down the southern slopes of half theKarakoram. As at Dras, the meeting of the waters takes place at the Drew quotes an extract from the history of the Kiiiperor Manuel Coninenus, by JohannesCinnanuis, which was communicated to The Times of June 12th, 1874. by an anonymouscorrespondent, showing that polo was played at Constantinople in the middle of the thirt<enthcentury and that the emperors themselves took part in it. Th. (Jonr. lioij. Ge
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