Synopsis This book has given a fruitful knowledge about the travel in kashmir, tibet & gilgit.various circumstances took me to kashmir, but for the greateer part of a year i was travilling.in the course journey, i was luckly enabled a company my friend mr. Walter r. Lawrence, & captian bower, the ex-colonel durands expendition against the raiding hunza-nagars.the whole region included in the sketch-map which accompanies this valome is an intricate mass of mighty mo\untains cloven by immumberable ravines. Kashmir has been called the norther bastion of india. The three greatest empires of the earthmeet-great britain, russia & china.