. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. From Skardii to Askolev. 133 We retiated our route of the day before to a point where the pathcomes down from the alluvial terrace into the river bed. Some wayup the bank above the meeting of the Indus and the Shigar a coupleof great barges were awaiting us, upon which we embarked withbaggage, coolies and ponies. Each boat was handled by a dozenpowerful oiiisnion. who put the whole expedition across in half an hour,. CR0SS1>G THE INDUS. landing on the right bank
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. From Skardii to Askolev. 133 We retiated our route of the day before to a point where the pathcomes down from the alluvial terrace into the river bed. Some wayup the bank above the meeting of the Indus and the Shigar a coupleof great barges were awaiting us, upon which we embarked withbaggage, coolies and ponies. Each boat was handled by a dozenpowerful oiiisnion. who put the whole expedition across in half an hour,. CR0SS1>G THE INDUS. landing on the right bank nearly opposite the starting-point, in spiteof the strong current and the breadth of the stream, which here is about300 yards. We mounted our ponies, and rode a couple of hours up the right bankparallel to our course of the day before on the left, and along the footof the spur which separates the Indus from the Shigar valley. Thisspur was once the bottom of the basin, and its upheaval at a recentI)eriod between the two valleys has forced both rivers to bend westwardbefore meeting. The spur slopes down into the vast sandy delta formedby the meeting of tlie rivers, and ends in a descending series of hugeblocks, rising singly out of the plain, separated from each other bystretches of the delta sand. I fancy that in times of exceptional flood (9221) , 3 134 Cliaptcr IX. the Shigar nuiy overflow into the Indits valley through these are six of these great rocks quite distinct from one another, and thelast but one is 1,300 feet high
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