. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. three stages, stopping at thevillages of Alchori and Yuno ; but we did tlio 29 oi 30 miles in twodays. After Shigar, for about six miles, we went along a shady road,unbroken even by the wide stony beds of the torrents which flow downfrom the mountains on our right. Little by little, however, increasingreaches of desert intervene between the villages, and the cultivated landagain takes the form of oases. • Lvmbri. or hmm^ia. moans valley. 142 Chapter IX. The Shigar
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. three stages, stopping at thevillages of Alchori and Yuno ; but we did tlio 29 oi 30 miles in twodays. After Shigar, for about six miles, we went along a shady road,unbroken even by the wide stony beds of the torrents which flow downfrom the mountains on our right. Little by little, however, increasingreaches of desert intervene between the villages, and the cultivated landagain takes the form of oases. • Lvmbri. or hmm^ia. moans valley. 142 Chapter IX. The Shigar river, divided into a network of rivulets, fills the wholeof the flat valley bottom, so that the path is forced to skirt the foot ofthe range, whose high peaks are hidden by projecting spurs. As weapproach the peak of Koser Gunge it too disappears with its glaciers,and is no longer visible except now and again through some valleyopening. Torrents flow down from these openings, fortunately sub-divided into small streams quite easy to cross by jumping or to fordon the ponies. We stopped for the night at Kushimul, in a field. THK SHIKARI ABDULLAII, AND THE (HANT VINE OF KUSHIMUL. enclosed with a little hedge, under a cherry, a pear and an apricot treeand an old mulberry, the last festooned with a gigantic vine whosetrunk had grown almost as great as its support. The second half of our route took us round by the projecting spurof Busper, which runs northward from Koser Gunge, and whose ridge,running down in the opposite direction to the Ganchen, bounds theopening of the Braldoh valley. The mountain spurs have shoved backthe path to the sand and pebbles of the valley bottom, save for anoccasional brief space where the river flows to their very bases. Betweenthe ends of these spurs we crossed considerable reaches of sand, whichappear to be a few hundred yards wide, and are sometimes as muchas a mile. Several tributary streams obliged us to mount our ponies From Skiirdu to Askolev.
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