. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. cables. On the whole jhula bridges are simple, strong and cheap, and thesystem might do good service in some of our own mountain crossing is really perfectly simple, and offers no difficulty as longas the bridge is properly kept up and the cables taut. But when halfof the cross-bars are broken and the bridge sags in the middle owingto the relaxing of the cables, the crossing may become most disagreeable, (9221) n 2 116 Chapter VIII. especially when the
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. cables. On the whole jhula bridges are simple, strong and cheap, and thesystem might do good service in some of our own mountain crossing is really perfectly simple, and offers no difficulty as longas the bridge is properly kept up and the cables taut. But when halfof the cross-bars are broken and the bridge sags in the middle owingto the relaxing of the cables, the crossing may become most disagreeable, (9221) n 2 116 Chapter VIII. especially when the wind blows the whole thing about like a of us ever suffered from giddiness even when the bridges werehung very high over swift torrents. But you have a feeling as thoughthe bridge were being carried upstream and you with it. As a rulefrom four to six people are able to cross at a time, but if the conditionof the cables is doubtful only two should try it at once. It is relatedof the Greek hermitages among the high cliffs of Thessaly that the ropewhich is used to pull people up to the threshold in a basket is never. BALTI BRIDUE MADE OF TWISTED BRANCHES. changed until it breaks, and every one takes his chance. The sametale is, of course, told of the jhula bridges, and Oriental inertia andfataUsm may give it a semblance of truth. It is, however, somewhatdifficult to prove. Near Karmang the valley narrows into a gorge, which Thomsongives as the end of the basin of a great lake which, in his opinion, usedto reach from here as far as Rondu, a little below Skardu. From herethe valley slopes north-eastward in a wide curve round the foot of theDeosai table-land, and now grows a little wider, notwithstanding anumber of narrow twists and bends into which it is forced by a series From ()lthiiigtliang to Skardii. ii; of very steep rocky spurs. Just beyond one of these, which forms aprecipice overlianging the river, lies the great oasis of Tolti, which fillsthe whole width of the
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