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(Continued from Page 4) nished in summer with awning and lounging chairs. Inside, the furnishings and equipment were on a lavish scale and, though not all to our taste, of the highest quality. Elaborately carved hardwood furniture in the Kashmiri tradition was particularly conspicuous. Over a pot of delicately scented Kashmir tea. Mr. Nirash told us how it all works. Nowadays visitors rent a houseboat for just a few days, seldom more than four or five at most. For that time, however, one is a lakedweller. getting provisions by shlkarm and water from the lake. Presumably the water is boiled before drinking, but even so we did not feel particularly sorry that we had come at the wrong season and had to make do with a common-or-garden hotel.
It was a good hotel and we had no complaints. It took them three shots to get my bill made up right, but the third was my fault as I had forgotten until Mr. Nirash reminded me at the last minute that I had given him 300 rupees to turn over to the hotel as a deposit on our room.
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