The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

CHAKOTI TO SRINAGAR 149
From the Uri dak bungalow, which we left at a
quarter-past ten, we took a short cut down to
the
Haji Pir river, crossing it on the coolies' shoulders
and nearly getting a ducking, and then up again to
the road, which we found in a very bad condition.
Not only were we obliged to walk in a narrow
track through snow and slush continually up to
our ankles and sometimes up to our knees, but
the road was blocked in many places by avalanches
and landslides, and in other places had caved in
and fallen away. And the cliffs above us were still
crumbling as we walked along, so that in many
and run
places we had to watch our opportunity
past the falling earth and snow. As it turned out,
we had no really narrow escapes, although there
were many
fresh falls of rock on the road since
yesterday's snow, and from milestone 76, which we
reached at half-past twelve, we could see on the
precipitous flank
path
of the mountain ahead the fresh
of an enormous avalanche. Landslips
occurred near here in September
again
1905. The best
pace we could get out of our coolies was two miles
an hour, and when one of us forged ahead to get
some food prepared at Rampur,
three miles in an