Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet

by W. H. Knight

—Vigne. [↑]

[2] “Won’t the old bearers get something, your honour?” [↑]

[3] According to M. Voysey, in his Asiatic Researches, “A single flower in the screen contains a hundred stones, each cut to the exact shape necessary, and highly polished; and, although everything is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the general effect produced is rather solemn and impressive than gaudy.

“In the minute beauties of execution, the flowers are by no means equal to those on tables and other small works in Pietra dura at Florence. It is the taste displayed in outline and application of this ornament, combined with the lightness and simplicity of the building, which gives it an advantage so prodigious over the gloomy portals of the chapel of the Medici. The graceful flow, the harmonious colours, combined with the mild lustre of the marble on which the ornamentation is displayed, form the peculiar charm of the building, and distinguish it from any other in the world. The materials are Lapis Lazuli, Jasper, Heliotrope or blood stone, Chalcedony, and other agates, Cornelian, Jade, &c.” [↑]

Route.

	Miles.			Miles.			Miles.
Allahabad			Vernagh	11		Peer	16
Cawnpore	120		Islamabad	15		Nowbogh	9
Ghoorsahagunge	72		Sirinugger	by water		Kûkûnath	10
Etawah	73		Gunberbull	by,, water,,		Atchabull	8
Kurga	72		Kungur	11		Islamabad	6
Delhi	51		Gûndisursing	12		Sirinugger	by water
Kurnaul	73		Soonamurg	14		Baramoula	by,, water,,
Umballa	45		Foot of the Hills	9		Nowshera	8
Kalka	40		Pandras	24		Uree	15
Kussowlie	9		Dras	8		Chukothee	15
Simla	40		Tusgam	14		Hutteian	14
Hureepore	20		Chungun	12		Chukar	9
Kalka	29		Pushkoom	10		Mehra	6
Umballa	40		Waka	13		Dunna	6
Thikanmajura	36		Khurboo	10		Puttun	6
Jullundur	61		Lamieroo	12		Dewul	9
Umritsur	59		Nûrila	16		Muree	11
Lahore	35		Suspûl	14		Rawul Pindee	37
Gûgerwalla	39		Egnemo	10		Gûgerkhan	30
Goojerat	30		Ladak	18		Jhelum	37
Bimber	27		Chunga	18		Goojerat	31
Serai Saidabad	12		Hemis	2		Gûgerwalla	30
Nowshera	11		Ladak	20		Lahore	39
Chungas	11		Pitok	4		Umritsur	35
Rajaori	12		Egnemo	14		Jullundur	59
Thanna	12		Suspûl	10		Loodiana	32
Burrumgulla	11		Nûrila	14		Umballa	71
Poshana	6		Lamieroo	16		Kurnaul	45
Peer Punjal	9		Khurboo	12		Ghureekulla	36
Poshana	9		Waka	10		Delhi	36
Aliabad	11		Pushkoom	13		Allyghur	79
Heerpore	13		Thambis	14		Agra	50
Shupayon	6		Sankoo	16		Bewah	82
Ramoon	9		Sooroo	12		Ghoorsahagunge	79
Sirinugger	14		Among the Mountains	11		Cawnpore	72
Wûler	by water		Ditto	14		Allahabad	120
Islamabad	by,, water,,		Sucknez	11
Atchabull	6		Bragnion	14

Parts of the country not having been at the time correctly mapped, these distances are in some instances approximations only. [[305]]

The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet.

During all our wanderings, whether in India, Cashmere, or Thibet, the most striking feature throughout, was the outward display of religion and the prominent part which religious forms of worship take in the every-day life of the people. [[306]]Monuments and temples everywhere bear testimony to the universal belief in a Supreme Being; and Hindoo, Mussulman, and Buddhist alike, by numberless prayers and frequent offerings, confess their desire to propitiate His power and to cultivate His favour.