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III. GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THE TRAVELLER.

Pbactical Hints: Season for travelling — Time for marching — Quick travelling — Crossing of high passes — Disguise
—Letters.

Equipment and Genebal Kequibements : Money — Parvanas — Servants — Horses and dandis — Tents — Dress —

Weapons—Provisions—Medicine chest—Breakfast and dinner service, and cooking apparatus.
Transport op 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 kulis 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 Hima-
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 Himalaya, and does not extend to Tibet; though, in some of its provinces,
especially in Gnari Khorsum and in Western Balti, 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 Himalaya 'are best visited from October to
March; during this period the climate is delightful and bracing; and though the