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0043 Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3
インドおよび高地アジアへの科学調査隊派遣の成果 : vol.3
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III. GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THE TRAVELLER.

Practical Hints: Season for travelling — Time for marching — Quick travelling — Crossing of high passes — Disguise
— Letters.
Equipment and General Requirements: Money — Párvánas — Servants — Horses and dándis — Tents — Dress —
Weapons — Provisions — Medicine chest — Breakfast and dinner service, and cooking apparatus.
Transport of Luggage: Packing — Means of conveyance.

PRACTICAL HINTS.

Travels of any extent are most pleasantly made in parties not exceeding two or
three, in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining supplies and kúlis for a greater
number.

Season for Travelling. The concluding period of the rainy season (in ana-
logy with that of India) is the most unhealthy time of the year in the Lower Himá-
laya. In the rainy season itself the difficulties of travelling and locomotion in general
are here greatly increased by the state of the rivers, which at such times are often
so swollen as to be unfordable, and become so violent as even to carry away bridges
and parts of the road. The rainy season is very little felt in the central parts of the
Western Himálaya, and does not extend to Tibet; though, in some of its provinces,
especially in Gnári Khórsum and in Western Bálti, its influence is still somewhat per-
ceptible (chiefly during the months of July and August) by a general increase of
atmospheric moisture and some occasional showers.

The southern, lower parts of the Himálaya are best visited from October to
March; during this period the climate is delightful and bracing; and though the