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Show 4 onment. The splendor of this Kashmirian scenery is not limited to a smal = bul extends for hundreds of miles in every direction long the winding mountain passes we had to stop every little while t allow the caravans of bullock-cars to o by; all goods going or coming t near, trains of ox-carts formed along the roadway, some as a hundred in one group, for huddled together there was lns Thclood o obbers. The huge wooden-wheeled carts laden with bales and boxes o ‘merchandise, the still grey oxen eating the meagre rice chaff, and the wear caretakers clothed in sombre flowing robes, all lighted by the camp-fires created a picture that might have been seen on this same spot ten centurie ago. It has been my fortune to see most of this world, but of it all I believ that Kashmir s the most glorious of God's carthly creations Unlike many of the beautiful rcgium of America, Kashmi is unspojle by commercial exploitation-iree from unsightly hoardings, litter, and th refuse fro a extravagan nation lnde: th "heathen" o Nort Indi could not do better than to send some native missionaries to the Unite States, to instruct the over-zealous Americans in cleaning up their country side and ridding the landscape of all advertising signs, disgusting roadstands, and the "streamlining" of our brooks and ponds with tin cans rusty bed-springs, and old automobile tires. In the past we have sent man ‘missionaries to India, now I suggest that things be reversed, and that th Tndians send missionaries to us; we could learn much about the sacrednes of nature from these simple, humble people It was late in the evening when we reached Srinagar, phmngmph 15 The atmosphere was cold and damp, and the greatroom, with it fire, that had been prepared for me, was most welcome. That my,htl wasinvited to a private performance given by a hal-dozen charming Kashmiria dancing girls; the women of this northerly native state are often of ligh complexion with blue eyes; they are the purest Aryans of all India. Th |