Picturesque Kashmir / by Arthur Neve ; illustrated by Geoffroy W. Millais.

  • Arthur Neve
Date:
1900
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Credit: Picturesque Kashmir / by Arthur Neve ; illustrated by Geoffroy W. Millais. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pieces, and in a few minutes the spray may he tlyin^'’ from the crested breakers. iVIost charm in O' of camps is Zerimanz, a pebbly bay, with rocky points phnii^ing down vertically into the clear water. On one cliff is perched an osprey lazily basking in the sunshine, and occasionally swoo])ing down on the shoals of tiny fish which swim near the surface. Half a mile away from the shore Hocks of teal almost blacken the surface of the lake in patches. ddiey are too wily to allow of the near approach of the sportsman. Close by the beach the gulls are hovering about, screaming when disturbed by a passing boat. Above the shingle there is a turfy sward, where rose bushes intermingle with the clumps of purple and white iris. The top of the rock is crowned by the old shrine of Shukrudin, who.se name the Mohammedans invoke as they pro|jel their boats across the lake. Beautiful orange lilies grow in j^rofusion among the rocks in tlie early summer. It is pleasant to hear the rhythmical splash of the waves on the beach below one’s camp at niofht; the sound minifies with one’s dreams, and we are transported across the “ black water ” to the homeland of the white chalk cliffs where the south-west gales are rolling huge breakers up the channel, and the beach is ever dancing to the measured impulse of the waves. On tlie north-east of the lake the s})urs of Haramouk come right down to the shore, and the snowy summit, though in reality fifteen miles further off, seems to overhang the water in which it
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