kachemire

Updated: May 19, 2025

Voyage de Kachemire. We have spent the last three weeks or so quietly in Srinagar, our boats forming links in the long chain that, during the "season," extends for miles along both banks of the river. A large contingent of amphibians dwells in the canal leading to the Dal gates, and the Chenar Bagh, sacred to the bachelor, shows not a spare inch along its shady length.

T. R. Swinburne - A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil