Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Asiatic Quarterly Review
The Asiatic Quarterly Review: "for the winter has been laid in to dry A few days of rejoicing precede the special festivity which takes place at night Then all the men of the villages go forth having torches in their hands which at the sound of music they swing round their heads and throw in the direction of Gilgit if they are at any distance from that place whilst the people of Gilgit throw them indifferently about the plain in which that town if town it may be called is situated"
Among the Tibetans By Isabella Lucy Bird
Among the Tibetans By Isabella Lucy Bird: "villages are inhabited by hardy Dards and Baltis short jolly looking darker and far less handsome than the Kashmiris but unlike them they showed so much friendliness as well as interest and curiosity that I remained with them for two days visiting their villages and seeing the sights they had to show me chiefly a great Sikh fort a yak bull the zho a hybrid the interiors of their houses a magnificent view from a hilltop and a Dard dance to the music of Dard reed pipes In return I sketched them individually and collectively as far as time allowed presenting them with the results truthful and ugly I bought a sheep for zs d and regaled the camp upon it the three which were brought for my inspection being ridden by boys astride"
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