. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. talledin floating domiciles, the prototypes of the Henleyhouse-boat. These are of various grades, and go inpairs, so as to allow of one being used for kitchenand servants quarters. The country boats are wellenough for one who is prepared to rough it a little,and they may be hired at the rate of forty rupees amonth for two, including the services of eight ser-vants. You can pay five times as much for the useof a boat on the English pattern, but then it is likelyto be fitted with all the modern appliances. This water life, which lasts for two mon
. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. talledin floating domiciles, the prototypes of the Henleyhouse-boat. These are of various grades, and go inpairs, so as to allow of one being used for kitchenand servants quarters. The country boats are wellenough for one who is prepared to rough it a little,and they may be hired at the rate of forty rupees amonth for two, including the services of eight ser-vants. You can pay five times as much for the useof a boat on the English pattern, but then it is likelyto be fitted with all the modern appliances. This water life, which lasts for two months, isvaried by leisurely excursions along the river andinto the lakes. In fact, so extensively intersected bystreams and canals is the valley that one may go allover the central plain by water. The passage of theA\^dar Lake is not unattended with danger; for, likeall lakes surrounded by mountains, it is subject tosudden and furious storms. This is the largest inlandbody of water in India, and only twelve miles long at that. Panorama of Kashmir. SRINAGAR. 317 Srinagar, or the City of the Sun, the capital ofthe country, has a population of over a hundred thou-sand. The city lies along the banks of the Jhelam,which follows a tortuous course completely through it,and goes with its tributaries and several canals toform a system of intricate but useful wonders whether the gondola might not be adesirable importation. The river is spanned along its two-mile inter-urbancourse by half a score of quaint wooden bridges,somehow suggestive of Japan. The houses are forthe most part of wood—a material which is even usedin the construction of temples and pagodas—and beara look of decrepitude, which may, however, be merelythe effect of their peculiar construction. They are inmany instances four or five stories in height, andhave sloping roofs, covered with unworked clay, outof which crops grass and weeds. They say that someof these wooden dwellings have been standing for twoc
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