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

200 THE ROMANTIC EAST
head to turn nasty. For nearly two hours he
kept wheeling around from one ditch to the other,
despite the united efforts of the driver, the syce,
and the three passengers, and in the end had to
be unharnessed and sent
back while we waited in
the dark for another relay, and it was after ten
o'clock when we finally arrived at the hotel.
Over the evening meal we congratulated
ourselves
upon having succeeded in obtaining a peep
at the romantic country in the bosom of the
Himalayas, and the pleasantest recollections will
always be associated with our excursion from
Rawal Pindi to Srinagar and the Happy Valley
of Kashmir.