. Et de l'ouest Himalaya 1909 Karakoram, un compte de l'expédition de H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo de Savoie, Duc des Abruzzes. compétentes de l'districtby les envoyer en retour des offres par les voies officielles. Entre Skardu et Shigar nous avons eu l'expérience d'un veryinteresting mode de transport, communs à tous l'ouest de l'Himalaya - la navigation du fleuve sur zhaks. AVe a certains d'entre nous alreadyused Braldoh à traverser la où elle s'écoule dans la vallée de Shigar, (0221) Y 2340 chapitre XVIII. mais ce n'était rien comparé à la véritable voyage en eux à aswift et turbulent st

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. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. authorities of the districtby sending them offerings in return through the official channels. Between Shigar and Skardu we had the experience of a veryinteresting mode of conveyance, common to all the western Himalaya—the navigation of the river on zhaks. AVe had some of us alreadyused them to cross the Braldoh where it flows into the Shigar valley, (0221) Y 2 340 Chapter XVIII. but that was nothing compared to the actual voyage in them upon aswift and turbulent stream. We sent on the coolies by land with theguides and the luggage. Then we betook ourselves across the fieldsto the river bank, jDcrhaps a mile from the village. Three rafts were inreadiness for us. They looked hke very fr-agile structures to contendwith the violent stream, which runs a muddy and swollen course withbillows that break and curl over at the top. Each zhak is made oftwenty pig or goat skins filled with air and secured by ropes to a lattice-work of poplar or wiUow branches, with the legs sticking up between, . A ZHAK, TTJRN^ED OVKE ON THE BANK. tied tightly with cord to keep the air in.^ We bestowed ourselves inpairs upon these primitive floats—the Duke and Mr. Baines, Negrottoand I, Sella and Botta. Sella tied a box to the wooden framework ofthe raft, on which he put the cinematographic camera, in order to takea record of this novel kind of travel. We sat cross-legged in the centreof the rafts. It was practically sitting in the water, except for someold pieces of felt (namdah) laid down on the lattice-work, for our weightmade the rafts ride low in the water. At the corners four steersmenstood erect, with long poles to serve as oars. Directly we pushed off we were seized by the current and given overto the mercy of the waves, veering now toward one bank, now the other, 1 Moorcroft describes similar rafts in use on the river Sutlcj, made of ox-hides, like thosew

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