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id: 39642
author: Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
title: Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneux
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  He used then to come out to Kashmir regularly every cold weather, and spend many happy months shooting small game in the Kashmir valley, markhor and ibex in Baltistan, the Gilgit district, and Astor, and stag in the Kashmir mountains. The Sind Valley--Gangabal Lake--The Lolab--The Lidar Valley--Martand--Achibal 108 CHAPTER VII SPORT Game Preservation--The year's bag--Duck-shooting--Fishing 118 CHAPTER VIII THE PEOPLE Kashmir beauties--The Pundits--Mohamedans--The Quadiani sect--Kashmiri villagers--Boatmen 125 CHAPTER IX THE HISTORY OF KASHMIR Possible effect of natural beauty--Ancient ruins--Martand--Greek influence--Buddhist influence--Kanishka--Lalitaditya--Avantivarman--Short reigns--Internal struggles--Perpetual intrigue--Advent of Mohamedans--Zain-ul-ab-ul-din--Akbar--The Moghals--Afghan oppressors--Sikhs--Rise of Gulab Singh--Break-up of Sikhs--Gulab Singh and the British--Treaty of 1846--Gulab Singh acquires Kashmir--Its deplorable state--Ranbir Singh--Country still depressed--Famine of 1877--Improvements during present reign 133 CHAPTER X ADMINISTRATION System of rule--Personal--Sources of revenue--Land revenue assessment 183 CHAPTER XI PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES Wool--Silk--Fruit--Rice--Other grains--Experimental farm--Soil--Implements--Forests--Mineral products--Shawls--Carpets--Silk--Papier-mâché--Puttoo-- Boat-building--Trade 194 CHAPTER XII THE ELECTRICAL SCHEME Water-power turned to electric power--The Jhelum River harnessed--The flume--The power-house--Difficulties encountered--The dredging scheme 222 CHAPTER XIII THE PEAKS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES The Peak K2--Errors in observation--Nanga Parbat--Rocks of great peaks--The Himalayan range 234 CHAPTER XIV THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAINS Interest of study--Kashmir under the sea--100,000,000 years ago--Kashmir an archipelago--Finally upheaved--Cause of upheaval--History of life--At first no land life--Ferns--The Coal Measures--Great reptiles--Mammals--Kashmir valley a lake--Appearance of man--Reflections on the story--Need to look forward--Creating higher man 251 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAJOR E. MOLYNEUX, D.S.O. PAGE 1.


id: 27213
author: Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
title: The Heart of Nature; or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
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  And with all this wide _general_ kindliness he will be something more than merely amiable and good-natured, and will have capacity for intense devotion for _particular_ men and women. It was an experience the like of which has come to many men and many women in every land in all ages.


id: 45747
author: Collie, Norman
title: Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges
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  He loves to wander in mountainous lands; ascents of great mountains, clad in frozen snow, to him are not unprofitable. But splendid though the climbing on the Coolin may be, it is only one of the attractions, possibly a minor attraction, to these hills, and there are many other mountain ranges where rock-climbing can be found.


id: 21239
author: Reid, Mayne
title: The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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  So sweet at other times, it now rings in my ears like some unearthly echo. There could be no doubt that they were walking on the water--sometimes slowly, at other times in a quick run--and, what was even more unaccountable than this, they were seen at times to _stand still upon the water_!


id: 27981
author: Reid, Mayne
title: The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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  It would be difficult to conceive a more appropriate name for them; but this did not satisfy the modern closet-naturalists--who, finding certain differences between them and other _bovidae_, must needs form a new genus, to accommodate this one species, and by such means render the study of zoology more difficult. In rain they are more numerous than at other times, and then they infest the paths; whereas in dry weather they betake themselves into the streams, or the thickly-shaded interior of the jungle.


id: 6476
author: Hooker, Joseph Dalton
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  Himalayan Journals — Volume 1 Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

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  Trichomanes,_ three _Hymenophyllae, Vittaria, Pleopeltis,_ and _Marattia,_ together with several _ The knots from which they are formed, are produced on the roots of oaks, maples, and other mountain forest trees, by a parasitical plant, known to botanists, as _Balanophora_.


id: 6477
author: Hooker, Joseph Dalton
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  Himalayan Journals — Volume 2 Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

summary:
  Abies, Brunoniana,_ i. 206, 209, 272, 274, 342; ii. 25, 32, 44, 108; _Smithiana,_ ii. 25, 32, 45; _Webbiana,_ i. 191, 272, 307, 342; ii. 44, 108. _ _Arisoema,_ i. 49. _Aristolochia saccata,_ ii. 6. Arrat, name of Lepchas, i. 127.


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