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Show 5 our small party through the muddy paths (o the waiting automobilc. Thi courteous attention was apparently a. u('n.nl for almost every person in Nowshera to crowd about us as we lmk i leave-there were half-clothed me and women astride weak-legged donLLys, beggars with em ‘whose scrawny little hands they held toward us for alms, cnpplcs hobhlm on uump: of legs and thrusting out their bony hands with the hop few pice might fall their way, men with palsy, blmd pcuplc, children v.n revolt e, dirty urchins whose diste spoke the lac of proper nourishment, half-wild dogs, and (h: ever-present screechin xow re there (o see us dcpm ol ictoni n\aklng V\"dgc of Kashmi Ve were so0n on our way to the loca(mn of the old stamping mill use in the maceration of rags for the Nowshera papermakers. I had long hear of this mill and desired to visit it, even lhcugh the place was somewha ficult of access. For about six miles beyond Nowshera we drove Lhmug lovely country; the atmosphere was delightfully clear, makingit possible t see great distances. The temperature was about thirty-two degrees, for w in m R aummolnl:, !hc remainder of the way we walked,thmug tain paths. T had ne ced such pure, exhilarating air; we were no ince were the snow-capped Haramuk Mountain, more than sixteen thousand feet, and the Gwashbrari Mountain nearly eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea. Never before ha it been my privilege to walk in such a beautiful setting, nor have I ever see ore rapidly flowing brooks and rivers. Photograph 12. Th s were not bridged, 50 it was necessary for us to cross the stream by bal.mcmg ourselves on long, slender trunks of trees laid from one ban to the other. Tn one instance the river was so wide and the "bridge" so narrow and swaying that we had to have coolies wade in the water at each side ‘Digital Image © 2005 Marrioft Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |
