. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. -, ready to startat night. We now had a few hours to purchase some articles at Pindi. Thetown is uninteresting—a typical cantonment with wide roads, well. ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF RAWAL PINDI. kept and lined with bungalows and gardens. Nearly every afternoona ^^olent wind blows in hot gusts for a few hours, raisinga stifling cloudof dust and sand, which penetrates through every crack of door orwindow. By daybreak on the following day we left Pindi in two landaus,which w
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. -, ready to startat night. We now had a few hours to purchase some articles at Pindi. Thetown is uninteresting—a typical cantonment with wide roads, well. ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF RAWAL PINDI. kept and lined with bungalows and gardens. Nearly every afternoona ^^olent wind blows in hot gusts for a few hours, raisinga stifling cloudof dust and sand, which penetrates through every crack of door orwindow. By daybreak on the following day we left Pindi in two landaus,which were drawn at a sharp trot by small wirj^ horses. On the outskirtsof the town in front of the verandahs which run along the low nativehouses the greater part of the population were sound asleep in thestreet upon their charjwys, a sort of bed consisting of a rectangularframework, across which is passed to and fro and interwoven a narrowband of coarsely woven hemp, thus forming a couch which combinesthe qiiaUties of simpUcity, elasticity and strength. The general From Marseilles to Sriiiagar. 21 impression given by the population asleep on these stretchers along thestreet is that some epidemic is raging or that they have been driven fromtheir homes by an earthquake. Our personal
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