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Show country, but, when once aroused, he speaks in no uncertain terms of hi desires an hopes. T am not politically minded, and I would not venture t it o o regardless of the possib ies of strife, religious differences, an civil w T,arly in the morning of the third day after leaving the seaport of Karach we reached Rawalpindi. From that point we had to travel by automobil to Srinagar, a distance of more than two hundred miles, photogra The temperature was twenty-six degrees, November being one of the col months in Kashmir. I had long heard of the beautiful "Vale of Kashmir, ut to me this had meant nothing more than a romantic-sounding name little had I realized the magnificence of this native Indian state. Fo five days, altogether, we travelled through the winding mountain passes climbing to almost seven thousand feet, and then dropping o two or thre thousand,o om one heightto anothe in rapid succession Photograph 13. The beautifully-clear Jhelum river flowed through th allcys, thousands of fect below the road, and snow-peaked mountain les away looked as if they might be touched, the atmospher was 5o clear. Photograph 14. In the low valleys the wide-spreading trees maple, birch, walnut, plane-had taken on their full autumn colouring neve befor ha I see suc a variet of tones pine, fir, an deoda tree were everywhere, tall, and with a softness of texture and delicacy of shad unknowni the Oceident. In the far-off valleys and crecping up the sides o the mountains almost o their snow-capped tops, there were orderly ric fields, an in the mont of Novembe these thousands of acre of well-kep s added a sombre tone to the landseape which otherwise might hav res made of stone but not a single building seeming out of place or encroaching on its envir ‘Digital image © 2005 Marriott Library Un |