. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. in down to the far-off plainsof India. In 1841 a landslide in the deepgorge of the Indus to the west ofNanga Parbat almost entirelydammed up the course of the river,forming a lake about 40 miles months later the dam gave way,and the huge reservoir was emptiedin a single day, obliterating everytrace of hfe for 800 miles of Attock, where the valley opensinto the Punjab plain, Gulab SinghsSikh army was encamped. Thefearful flood swept it away, destr
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. in down to the far-off plainsof India. In 1841 a landslide in the deepgorge of the Indus to the west ofNanga Parbat almost entirelydammed up the course of the river,forming a lake about 40 miles months later the dam gave way,and the huge reservoir was emptiedin a single day, obliterating everytrace of hfe for 800 miles of Attock, where the valley opensinto the Punjab plain, Gulab SinghsSikh army was encamped. Thefearful flood swept it away, destroy-ing 500 men. 1 These catastrophesare not confined to the records several similardisasters proceeding from the samecauses in the other valleys of thewestern In the midst of this geologicalchaos, lost in the vast stony himible human dwelhngs hiddenaway in the recesses between theridges, sometimes so deeply secludedamong the tremendous precipices ofthe gorge that the sun reaches them for one hour only in the ant-hke industrv the inhabitants have succeeded in wresting their. THE IXDUS BELOW This disaster was for a long time attributed to the damming up of the Shyok valley, atributary of the Indus above Skardu (Sir A. CunxlnCH.\m, op. cit.). Years subsequently Drew-discovered the real cause. Beside Drew, D. Fraser has described this fearful inundation (seeThe Marches of Hurulustan. London 1907) ; also Burrard, op. cit. - One of the greatest was the destruction of the city of Bilaspur in 1762, through the suddengiving way of a dam which had been formed in the river Sutlej by a landslide and had held upagainst the water for forty days. ,,.,;. (9221) o 2 100 Chapter VII. nurture from the terrific nature round them. They have caught everytrickle of water, every rivulet fed by high neve or glacier, and haveled it for miles through carefully constructed conduits to a point wherea little sloping ledge, or more often the sur
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