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Art. II.—Pujahs in the Sutlej Valley, Himalayas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In the summer of 1860, I started from Simla to pass a few weeks at Chini, so as to avoid the rains. Chini is 16 marches about due east, which may be roughly put as being nearly 200 miles. Being just beyond the higher range of the Himalayan chain, the rain cloud is generally spent before it reaches the locality; still there is enough moisture to nourish vegetation, so that trees and flowers are plentiful. About two or three marches beyond this the rainless region commences, where trees are few and far between, and crops depend on the irrigation of small streams coming down from the melted snow of the higher peaks. Chini is about 10,000 feet above the sea, hence it is a most delightful climate in the summer; and few places in the Himalayas can present such a splendid view as the one looking across the Sutlej from the village. A bungalow had been erected at the time of Lord Dalhousie, and in it I put up for about two months; as I did my best when any of the people applied with ailments, they became friendly, and seeing me sketching, and taking an interest in their doings, they announced their ceremonies, and invited me to come and see them. I regret that my knowledge of the ordinary Hindostani was, at that time, but very small, so that I was unable to ask questions and collect information. from this cause my account of their Pujahs is far from complete.
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page 15 note 1 Lloyd and Gerard's Narrative, vol. i. p. 183.
page 15 note 2 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 302.
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page 18 note 1 An exact copy of one of these brooches has been exhibited for some years in the South Kensington Museum as an Irish Celtic one. I have communicated with the authorities about it, but as they can get no satisfactory reply from the firm in Dublin who manufacture and sell it as an Irish brooch, it remains in the South Kensington Museum as a Celtic work of art. [The original of this brooch was found at Tara many years ago.—Ed. J.R.A.S.]
page 18 note 2 In Good Words the opposite direction is given, but on reference to my sketches, I am now convinced that what is here stated is correct.
page 22 note 1 A very striking resemblance to what is here described will be found in 2 Sam. xi. 17, 18, 19.
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