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18 May 2018 by Alan

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Title: Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: De Filippi, Filippo, 1869-1938 Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933
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e us forget the fascinatingspectacle of the vale of Kashmirin its spring blossom, and thus theedge was taken oft from the sur-prising contrast between two regionsso wholly diverse from each other.They feel this contrast more keenlywho cross the Zoji La in summer,gazing to the very top of the passupon the green forests and rich pastures of the Sind valley, and thenloolving down on the other side upon the stony desert of Baltistan. Thereis probably no other range of mountains upon the face of the earth whosetwo slopes reveal features so absolutely opposed to one another. Thetraveller has crossed the great northern barrier of India, and hassuddenly entered a country which is physically identical with Tibet andCentral Asia. Padre Ippolito Desideri, an Italian missionary who crossed the ZojiLa on May 30th, 1715, describes the trans-Himalayan region in thefollowing words : From the foot of this pass throughout the wholeextent of the nine months march that it takes to get from here to China,

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The Dras \allfv. 73 there is no fertility, no greenness or pleasantness in the land, nothingbut the absolute and horrible desolation of the Caucasian mountains,which stretch all that way and which the geographers call dorsum orbis.^Padre Desideri went no farther than Leh, which is only fourteen orfifteen marches from Zoji La ; but the horrible desolation of themountains stretches over the whole of Baltistan and the neighbouringcountries of Gilgit and Astor to the west and Ladakh to the south-east—in other words, the whole of the region lying to the north of the westernHimalaya. It is an enormous strip, over 300 miles broad, all of it above7,000 feet high, and it seems distorted by a fearfid convulsion of the earthssurface. It is covered by a complicated system of mountain ranges,with peaks from 26,000 to 28,000 feet high, and includes immenseplateaus from 46 to 60 miles wide and from 15,000 to 17,000 feet abovesea level, as well as innumerable valleys and countless glaciers, someof

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7 April 2018 by Alan

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inst him totake the kingdom. He dropped it there to takeup arms, and there it had been since. The topof it was split open. The priest in a neighboringparish had tried, a hundred years before, to quarryit for his parsonage, but like King Harald washalted before he had gone far. What was thematter with the parsons in those days, I cannotimagine. When they opened the graves of KingValdemar and Queen Dagmar, of whom I havetold elsewhere, they found her tomb a jumble ofbroken brick and rubbish. A priest attached tothe church, to make a nice roomy burial-placefor himself, had calmly cut into the resting-placeof Denmarks best-beloved queen, throwing thebones he found there to the scrap-heap. A hun-dred years and over, the skull of the gentle Dag-mar, which some one had picked up, lay about thechurch and was then carried off by a thief. Agold cross the queen had worn was saved, having THE OLD TOWN 159 value in the eyes of the vandals, and in thecourse of time found its way into the possession

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Daqmabs DesfoiIiED Tomb. of the government and into the museum ofantiquities, where it now is, its most preciousrelic. Holme week was the great time of the yearfor us all. It came late in July, when the haywas all in and we got our fishing-tackle out; forthe hay was the great crop thereabouts, and untilit had been cut it was not a good thing to be caughtby the farmer wading through his meadows. 160 THE OLD TOWN Out toward the sea the river made a great bend,and in it, near its mouth, lay a stretch of marsh-land where the grass grew exceeding rich andsweet. This was the Holme, which in thethirteenth century had been given to the town bythe King in return for its building a wall aroundRibe the better to defend it. The wall was neverbuilt, though they got so far as digging a ditch,but they kept the land, and after the Reformationdivided it up among themselves, to their great gain.When now the last of the hay had been cut andstacked, the Old Town went a-picnicing, bagand baggage. Those wh

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25 February 2018 by Alan

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s not beloved ofthe people, as they accuse it of eating too manyof their young fish. Visitors who do not like theirmuddy Nile fish do not see any great offbnce inthis, but I can quite see the matter from thenatives point of view, and am a little astonishedthat it has been allowed to increase and multiplyas it has. Last year, each evening, something likethirty used to roost on the chain cable of Mr.Daviss dahabeah, moored just opposite Luxor.Where they all came from was something of amystery, as, though you would see one now andagain on that reach of river, you would neverbe able to see anything like that number; yetevery evening in they used to come, and after arather excited noisy discussion settled down toroost for the night. A most interesting thing in this bird is itssingular habit of hanging in mid-air, above thewater, on the look – out for fish. Although Ihave said fish, it is certain it must take othercreatures than fish, for I have often seen it, not BLACK AND WHITE KINGFISHER

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BLACK AND WHITE KINGFISHER 53 only hovering over the Sacred Lake at Karnak,but also plunging head foremost down into itswaters, and securing some food or other, withwhich it has at once flown away to some con-venient perch and there swallowed it. Now thereare no fish in the Karnak Lake, and it is clearthat what the Kingfisher goes for must be somevariety of its ordinary fishy food, and must be somelarvsB or fine fat water-beetle. When hangingthus in mid-air it reminds me a little of ourown Windhover or Kestrel, in its quick clappingstroke of wings, whilst its body and tail hangnearly perpendicularly down, till it sees whatit wants ; then the position of its body alters ina flash, and down it plunges, and is lost for amoment in the splash and spray that it raises bythe impact with the water. THE LITTLE GREEN BEE-EATER Merops viridis The plumage throughout is green, with a black eye-stripeand a black marking in front on chest; legs brown, beakblack, eyes crimson, two centre tail-feather

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23 December 2017 by Alan

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f strong external influence in the past, despite a geo-graphical position so secluded, in a country so wild and inhospitablethat whole groups of villages are cut off from all communion with therest of the world during ten months of the year. The Balti race deservea high degree of esteem and goodwill. They are scrupidously honest,mild of manners, gentle and good-tempered, naturally amenable todiscipline, capable of the hardest labour, incredibly temperate, happywith very Uttle and invariably good-humoured. CHAPTER VII. THE INDUS VALLEY. Character. — (liological Chaos. — Stone-falls, Landslips. Dei)Osits and Erosions. — AlluvialCones. — Signs of Climatic Change. — The Tenipoiary Damming of the Valleys. — GreatHistorical Floods. — Oases. — Irrigation Canal.s. — The Skardii Route. — The Formationot the Caravan.—The Order of thr Marches. — Saddle-ponies. — Coolies. — The Escort. —Climate. — The Cam)). — Kashmiri Servants. —Camp Work. ConU and Kunsniiiah.

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IHE striking peculiarities of theDras valley had made a stioiigim])iession upon us. But not untilwe reached the Indus valley did werealize to the full the nature of thisland of desolation and sterility. Thegigantic scale of all the features does not grow upon one until after daysand days of sojourn in this strange scenery, because the perfect propor-tions of the valleys and their enclosing hilLs keep the traveller under anillusion as to their actual dimensions. V\)v Indus \;illey. 03 111 the Alps one has the impression that everything has been mouldedill a remote past, and reached once and for all a settled state. Theancient gashes and scars are cloaked with a mantle of verdure whichhides the great wounds and mutilations left by prehistoric landshdes.The rocks have been polished by the hand of time ; they are overgrownwith moss and hchens ; no ledge, no crevice, is without its plant life.A rock-fall here, a landslip there, seems to matter as little as grains ofsand that slide down the

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5 November 2017 by Alan

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two p.m., saying he had beennearly to Eldon, in the Bow valley, east of ourcamp. Again in the evening we both set out, I upthe ridge, and Ross towards the muskegs andmeadows below our camp to the north. No signof our animals was discovered. A curious effect i 182 mat>a way back to woods, to find a good ses. Tht nile to camp was torrent with aks and noble her side. Oi was more than diameter. Tb egion, for a mile veritable par larch, and in picas, marmot nes, one of I came upon as I api evenii; ind>f sleet anfull, and li the clouds orm cene seeping The evexgrecns . . . battle with storm and avalanche andOVer the ^^V^^Wund into those forbidding heights^m^^^ghOStly m&mmttgn-dOUd WkitenS theSround ^tf^.»ha|p_ lined shadows of the were thrown in bright moonligh overed tent. Rain in the mornin nth day of consecutive :h is past ent for the u:h de- g mar ency h^ dis- Ross se, >rning, about « lad been of our t out, I up Ross >kegs and our c h. No sign als was di urious effect

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©ur Iborses ^Disappear 183 on our imagination was made by our trying to hearthe bell. Both of us fancied we could hear it, ring-ing constantly, in one direction or another, thoughwe could not agree upon the locality. It was useless to waste more time hunting overthe vast extent of open country that surrounded ourcamp, so I decided to send Ross back to Laggan, andthen by rail to Banff, for more horses, or another manto find our own. Owing to the cold weather I hadno doubt we would be able to cross the streamswhich come out of Desolation and Paradise valleys.In the morning at eight oclock Ross started for Laggan.Left absolutely alone in the wilderness for the first time,I spent the entire morning gathering fire-wood whichthe miners had cut, and making camp comfortable andneat. At night I banked the camp-fire, and in themorning, after eleven hours, it was still burning. August 25th. Fog and snow showers were thecurtain raiser this morning. The continuous per-formance began at ten oclock

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14 October 2017 by Alan

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sent to the V. M. I. becausehe was no larger than abroiling chicken, was fear-fully wounded, and it is awonder he ever recovered.He is now the Rev. CharlesRandolph, of Evington, Va.First Sergeant Erskine Ross,of A, was distinguishedfor gallantry. He is nowUnited States circuit judgein California, and Color-Bearer Oliver Perry Evansalso became a San Franciscojudge. First Sergeant A. Pizzini, Jr., was specially notedfor grit, as was peach-cheeked Coonie Ricketts, theenvied pet of the petticoats. Winder Garrett, of Williams-burg, ran his bayonet through a gunner in the charge thattook the battery, and he and Charlie Faulkner capturedtwenty-two big Germans, barricaded in an icehouse.Cadet Levi Welsh, of B, made a great mark for daring,and Patrick Henry, of Tennessee, won his spurs throughall the fight. Grim and gallant Professor-Captain HenryA. Wise always commended the bearing of EdmundBerkeley, Bob Brockenborough, Preston Cocke and PemThomson. All were Valley boys, except Cocke, who was

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GENERAL SCOTT SHIPP, V. M. I. BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES 44:i from the James River Valley, but of the old Preston blood. That a number of Alabama boys were in, I chanced toknow. H. Walker Garrow, a fine fellow, later loved inMobile, was one. Another letter, equally unsuspecting ofpublication, from Minge, says: The cadet corps little stunt at Newmarket seems tohave crept into history as a marginal note. This seed-corn battalion, as President Davis styled it, when he heardof the slaughter of the innocents, has been tenderly handledby ail the recorders. It was without question a most beau-tiful and touching illustration of Lees grand maxim, Dutyis the noblest word in thelanguage. And then thebook closes. There are no specific rec-ords left and no specificdeeds. Hunter, in his cam-paign of desolation up theValley, destroyed the instituteand its records, June 11th,1864. The rosters were ob-tainable only from the mem-ories of those officers whoseduty it was to call the com-pany

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14 August 2017 by Alan

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the nearestpoint on Pacific tide water, a railroad was buildtby the Dominion Government and transferred to theCompany in 1886. Pennys is an old time ranchingsettlement. Ashcroft has developed into aAshcroft— busy town, being the point of de- Alt. 1,075 ft. parture for Cariboo and Ominecagold fields in the northern interiorSpatsum of British Columbia. Trains of freight wagons drawn by long stringsof pack-mules, laden with merchandise, depart fromand arrive here almost dialy. There are extensivecattle ranches in the vicinity, and considerable farm-ing is done. Three miles beyond Ashcroft the hillspress close upon the Thompson River, which cuts itsway through a winding gorge of almost terrifyinggloom and desolation, fitly named the Black Canyon.Emerging the train follows the river as it windsswiftly among the round topped, treeless and watercut hills. At Spences Bridge the oldSpences Bridge wagon road up this valley to theCariboo gold country crosses the Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route.

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Soo-Pacific True ScenicIRoute.

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25 August 2016 by Alan

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s; wing, about 18; bill, about 8.50; tar-sus, 8. The Wood Ibis is apparently not uncommon in late summer insouthern Illinois, where it was frequently observed by Prof. Ridgway,near Mt. Carmel, and Mr. J. Hurter (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1881, p.124) found it numerous in August, 1888, in Madison Co., 111., nearSt. Louis. Dr. Hoy (1853) records a specimen in the Museum of theWisconsin State Historical Society at Madison, which was shot nearMilwaukee, in September, 1852. Kumlien and Hollister consider it avery rare midsummer straggler in Wisconsin and say that in a letterto L. Kumlien, Dr. Hoy stated he had procured a specimen at Racinein September, 1868. They also record a third specimen killed onRock River between Janesville and Edgerton. (Birds of Wisconsin,1903- P- 33-) Suborder HERODII. Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, etc. Family ARDEID^^. Herons and Bitterns. About 70 known species belong to this family distributed through-out the world. Many of the true herons are gregarious, while others

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Great Blue Heron. Least Bittern. American Bittern. Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 363 are only occasionally so, if at all. When undisturbed they usuallynest in colonies or rookeries, as their breeding places are some-times called, three or four species often occupying the same tree. The Bitterns are not gregarious in the true sense of the word,although during the breeding season numbers of nests of the smallerspecies may often be found in close proximity to each other. TheAmerican Bittern is more solitary in its habits. When feeding theyfrequent the shores of rivers and ponds as well as marshes andlagoons. The food consists largely of fish, frogs, and small reptiles,which they catch with great dexterity. Subfamily BOTAURINiE. Bitterns.Genus BOTAURUS Stephens.79. Botaurus lentiginosus (Montag.).American Bittern. Local names: Stake-driver. Thunder-pump. Distr.: Temperate North America, south to Guatemala, Cuba,and Jamaica. Adult: Upper parts, brown; wing coverts,

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24 November 2015 by Alan

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push through, andexhibit to the field their glossy skins and spotted sides. Oh,you beauties! exclaims some old Meltonian, rapturouslyfond of the sport. Two minutes more elapse ; another houndslips out of cover, and takes a short turn outside, with his noseto the ground and his stern lashing his side—thinking, no doubt,he might touch on a drag, should Reynard have been abroadin the night. Hounds have no business to think, thinks thesecond whipper-in, who observes him ; but one crack of hiswhip, with Rasselas, Rasselas, where are you going, Rasselas ?Get to cover, Rasselas ; and Rasselas immediately disappears.Five minutes more pass away. No fox here, says one.Dont be in a hurry, cries Mr. Cradock,- they are drawing 1 Master from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1827. – This gentleman resided within the limits of the Quorn hunt, and kindly super-intended the management of the covers. He has lately paid the debt of nature(Authors note). 8 Foxhounds, showing Rounded andUnrounded Ear

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