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"