Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and ThibetNothing could exceed the beauty of the view as we approached our intended halting-place. Having crossed the torrent by a wooden bridge, the mountains we had been winding through showed out in all their grandeur, while above us, inaccessible peaks, with sharp and fanciful projections, nestled their mighty heads among the fleecy clouds, which hung about after the recent rains. ~ ~ ~ Captain William Henry Knight journeyed through Kashmir and Tibet in 1860 in the company of another officer and a porter. Having spent a year and a half in India with his regiment, Captain Knight had managed to obtain a six months' leave of absence in order to escape the hot season and journey through the cool foothills of the Himalayas. His goal in this volume was to represent "a faithful picture of travels in regions where excursion trains are still unknown, and Travelers' Guides unpublished." WILLIAM HENRY KNIGHT was a Captain in England's Forty-Eighth Regiment. This is his only known work. |
Contents
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PART III | 78 |
PART IV | 129 |
A RETREAT TO THE VALLEY | 205 |
LAST DAYS OF TRAVEL | 261 |
APPENDIX | 351 |
THE MYSTIC SENTENCE OF THIBET | 362 |
A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CASHMERE | 376 |
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Page 3 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Page 346 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 186 - Here we find a practice equally strange, that of polyandry, if I may so call it, universally prevailing ; and see one female, associating her fate and fortune with all the brothers of a family, without any restriction of age, or of numbers...
Page 352 - Kashmirian fanes are distinguished by the graceful elegance of their outlines, by the massive boldness of their parts, and by the happy propriety of their decorations.
Page 96 - ... poet's eyes had never rested on either lake or isle. . . In the evening, the number of boats congregated on the lake was marvellous. All were perfectly crammed with Cashmerian pleasureseekers ; but the turbaned faithful, in spite of the pressure, in no way lost their dignity, but with pipes and coffee enjoyed themselves in apparently entire unconsciousness of there being a soul on the lake beside themselves. The most wonderful sight, however, was the immense crowd of many-coloured...
Page 361 - I had been struck with the great general resemblance which the temple bore to the recorded disposition of the ark, and its surrounding curtains, in imitation of which the temple at Jerusalem was built ; and it became for a moment a question whether the Cashmerian.