In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . ed again up to6020 feet at Gangoli Hat, and redescended by a steep in-cline to 2500 feet. The intense heat prevented me fromwalking at my usual pace, and I did not, therefore, reachmy destination before sundown. Walking on in thedark, we saw the distant flickering forest fires crawlinghere and there like incandescent snakes along or up themountain-side; these are caused by the igniting of thegrass, shrubs, and undergrowth by the natives, the flamesnot unfrequently spreading and playing havoc among thefinest trees of the forest. 12 CAS
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . ed again up to6020 feet at Gangoli Hat, and redescended by a steep in-cline to 2500 feet. The intense heat prevented me fromwalking at my usual pace, and I did not, therefore, reachmy destination before sundown. Walking on in thedark, we saw the distant flickering forest fires crawlinghere and there like incandescent snakes along or up themountain-side; these are caused by the igniting of thegrass, shrubs, and undergrowth by the natives, the flamesnot unfrequently spreading and playing havoc among thefinest trees of the forest. 12 CASTLE AT PITHORAGARH At Pithoragarh (6650 feet) there is the old LoudonGourkha fort to be seen, on a hill - top, also a well-keptleper hospital, a school, and a mission-house. The soilis fertile, and there are many stretches of well-cultivatedland dotted with habitations. Water is plentiful, andthough the scenery certainly lacks trees except in theimmediate neighborhood of the villages and houses, ithas, nevertheless, a certain picturesqueness on account of. CASTLE AT PITHORAGARH its background of wooded mountains. I started fromPithoragarh at ; leaving the road to Tal on theleft, I followed the track at a medium elevation of 6250feet, arriving at Shadgora (6350 feet) just in time towitness the blessing of a calf by a Brahmin. Inside adiminutive shrine — into the door of which I was curi-ous enough to peep—I discovered two skinny, repulsiveold , with sunken, discolored eyes, untidy locks ofscanty hair, long, unwashed, bony arms and legs, and fin-ger and toe nails of abnormal length. They were clad ina few dirty rags, and were busily attending to the lightsburning on several primitive stone candlesticks along thewalls of the shrine. There were also some curiouslyshaped stones standing upright among the ceiling of this place of worship was not high enough 13 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND to allow the women to stand, and they were compelled tocrawl about
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