This Operation Being
Repeated In Other Tenements, I Found Myself At Last Left In Full And
Uninterrupted Possession Of The Entire Settlement I Happened To Be
In The Vicinity Of, Including The Cocks, Hens, Firewood, Dwelling,
Places, And Messuages, &C. Thereunto Appertaining And Belonging.
When
they re-occupied the evacuated premises I don't know, but Rajoo, I
ascertained, wished them all no future
Happiness when, on coming up
some time afterwards, he knocked at every door and looked down every
sky-light and chimney in the village without being able to procure
as much as a light to ignite the tobacco in his "hubble bubble." The
coolies having found the path on the right bank of the torrent quite as
bad as prognosticated, we got our breakfast shortly before sunset. From
the proximity of a high rocky mountain, towards the westward of our
camp, however, this was considerably earlier than might be imagined.
SEPTEMBER 1. - Commenced our last month but one of leave, by a
fine march of some sixteen miles from Sankoo to Tesroo, or Sooroo,
at the foot of the grandest snowy range we had yet encountered. The
path led us over a gigantic fall of rocks, evidently the deposits
formed by successive and destructive avalanches.
In some parts the traces were quite fresh, the rocks being rent and
uptorn in a wonderful way; and, in one place, we passed the ground
where two villages had been entirely overwhelmed by an avalanche,
the entire population of twenty-five having been killed in the ruins.
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