. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. e recognized. K. Oestreichand Ellsworth Huntingdon described it as an upheaval not yet shapedor furrowed by the action of water. ^ It is full of glacier marks anddeposits, and must once have been entirely covered by a large glacierof the continental type. The route crosses the plain in an absolutely straight line from north-east to south-west, traversing a number of broad streams. These were K. Oestreich (op. cit.) ,• ! Huntingdon, The Vale of Kashmir. Bu
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. e recognized. K. Oestreichand Ellsworth Huntingdon described it as an upheaval not yet shapedor furrowed by the action of water. ^ It is full of glacier marks anddeposits, and must once have been entirely covered by a large glacierof the continental type. The route crosses the plain in an absolutely straight line from north-east to south-west, traversing a number of broad streams. These were K. Oestreich (op. cit.) ,• ! Huntingdon, The Vale of Kashmir. Bull. Soc. 38, 1900. p. 057. 346 (Miaptor XVIII. clear and shallow with pebbly beds, ruiming between low anduniting in the centre of the plain to form the Shigar river, the onlyemissary of the Deosai plain, and a tributary to the Dras river. It issaid to be full of trout. There are many clear cold springs along itsway. The soil is covered with stones and pebbles, grass growingprofusely among them. It seemed to us like a beautiful meadow, afterour months in arid Baltistan. However, we passed some Englishmen. DTK (AMI OX THE BOItDEHS OV THK DKOSM coming from Kashmir, and to them, as to Ujfalvy, it was a perfect desertof stones. The path is broad and hard ; for the route over the Deosaiplain, while it is not the official highway used by the post, is traversedduring the summer by a considerable part of the traffic between Srinagarand Skardu, and all the Englishmen take it who are bound oi\ huntingexpeditions in Baltistan. Marmots are numerous, and the earth alongthe roadside is perforated with their burrows. The little animals arelarger than with us, and have pelts of about the same colour, tawnybrown shading to yellow on the belly. On every side we kept hearingtheir shrill frightened squeak. The pasture lands of the Deosai are saidto harbour a good many bears. Birds are scarce, likewise insects. Wpsaw no crickets, bees or wasps, and but few butterflies, d
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