A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Diary Of A Pedestrian In Cashmere And Thibet By William Henry Knight




























































 -  About
two o'clock we reached the village of Shupayon, and here began to
perceive a considerable change in the style - Page 59
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About Two O'clock We Reached The Village Of Shupayon, And Here Began To Perceive A Considerable Change In The Style Of Architecture From What We Had Been Accustomed To; The Flat Mudden Roof Giving Place To The Sharply-Pitched Wooden One, Thatched With Straw, Or Coarsely TILED With Wood.

Our halting-place we found, for the first time, to possess a staircase and upper story.

A little square habitation it was, with a verandah all round it, and built entirely of wood. From this, as the clouds lifted from the mountain-tops around, a most lovely view opened out before us.

Wherever the eye rested toward the mountains, the snow-capped peaks raised themselves up into the clear blue sky; while at our feet lay the far-famed valley, reaching towards the north, to the very base of the mountain range, and rising gradually and by a gentle slope to our halting-place, and so back to the pass from which we had just descended.

As the sun appeared to have come out again permanently, we took the opportunity of getting our tents and other property which had suffered from the wet out for a general airing.

JUNE 30. - Marched about nine miles through fertile slopes of rice-fields, shaded by walnuts and sycamores, and found our halting-place situated in a serai, shrouded in mulberry and cherry trees, and with a charming little rivulet running through it, discoursing sweet music night and day. Our habitation was a baraduree, or summer-house, of wood, and having an upper room with trellised windows, where we spent the day very pleasantly.

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