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0052 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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CHAPTER I

THE VALE OF KASHMIR

" Who has not heard of the vale of Cashmere,
With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave,
Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear
As the love-lighted eyes that hung over their wave?"
Thomas Moore.

We had expected to find Kashmir idyllic, a green sunny
vale full of rivers, and surrounded by the grand scenery of
the snowy Himalayas. Imagination conjured up a smooth
plain of soft green turf covered with a network of winding
canals and rivers, dotted with shady orchards and bright
with gardens of rare flowers. We expected to see groves of
stately chenar trees sheltering mossy thatched cottages, the
homes of a gay, happy people, with dark eyes, dark hair, fair
olive skins, and handsome features. The picture included
clear blue lakes, and a ring of enclosing mountains, green
and heavily forested on the lower slopes, with deep, myste-
rious gorges, where vine-covered ruins of ancient temples
stood beside the cascades of laughing brooks tumbling down
in sheets of spray. Far above the forests of Himalayan pine
and of the deodar, with the almost naked central stalks of
its cones pointing straight upward like brown Christmas
candles, we looked for the superb cold heights of the lofty
Himalayas, where snow and winter reign eternally.
Our picture was not wrong, but it presented only one,
and that the loveliest, of the many aspects of Kashmir.
The scene was very different on the 18th of March, 1905,