Excerpt: ...can easily be brought from a small nullah towards Lidarwat. Tearing ourselves away from this spot, and turning our backs upon one of the most gorgeous views in Kashmir, we plunged into a beautiful wood. Maidenhair and many another fern grew in masses among the great roots which twined like snakes over the rocky slopes. Far below, with muffled roar, the unseen river tore its downward way. By-and-by, the path emerging from the wood shelved along a green hillside, where bracken and golden spurge clothed the little ...
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Excerpt: ...can easily be brought from a small nullah towards Lidarwat. Tearing ourselves away from this spot, and turning our backs upon one of the most gorgeous views in Kashmir, we plunged into a beautiful wood. Maidenhair and many another fern grew in masses among the great roots which twined like snakes over the rocky slopes. Far below, with muffled roar, the unseen river tore its downward way. By-and-by, the path emerging from the wood shelved along a green hillside, where bracken and golden spurge clothed the little hollows, while wild wall-flower, Jacob's Ladder, and a large purple cranes-bill brightened the slopes where happy cattle, but lately released from their winter's imprisonment, were feeding greedily on the young green grass. I fancy the cattle have a remarkably poor time here in winter. Hay is not made, and very little winter forage seems to be collected. As the snows fall lower on the hills, the flocks and herds are driven down to the low ground, where they drag through the dark days as best they can, on maize-stalks and such like. I noticed early in May the water buffaloes just turned out to graze in the Lolab, and more weakly, melancholy collections of skin-and-bone I have seldom seen. Now, however, up high in every sunny grassy valley, the Gujars may be found camping with their flocks-cattle, ponies, buffaloes, and goats, working upwards hard on the track of the receding snow, where the primula and the gentian star the spring turf. A series of grassy uplands brought us close to Lidarwat, when a sharp shower, arriving unexpectedly from nowhere in particular, sent us to eat our lunch under the shelter of some fairly waterproof trees in the company of a herd of water buffaloes of especially evil aspect. One hoary brute in particular, with enormous horns and pale blue eyes, made me think of the legend concerning the origin of the buffalo. When the Almighty was hard at work creating the animals, the devil came and looked on until he became...
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