1 64 DINGA.
2 little labour. The other two lie along the sides
3 of the. ridge, one by Dheri on the right, and
4 the other by Dinga on the left: the difference
5 in these two routes and the other is ten miles.
6 The guns and wheel-carriages accompanying
7 the mission separating here, started by Dinga,
8 while the whole party passed on by Kharian.*
9 * «The direct road to Peshawr being impracticable for
10 guns, on account of the steepness of some ghits that cross
11 a low range of mountains, extending through the country,
12 almost parallel with, and not very far distant from, the
13 river Jhelum; we were obliged to take a more circuitous
14 route, which will eventually bring us to a lower ridge,
15 where the hills are more undulating and less precipitous.
16 Midway we came to a ‘ baoli,’ or covered well—one’ of
17 “those constructions that do honour to the pious feelings of
18 individuals who have been thus led to bestow their wealth
19 for the general benefit of their fellow creatures: the weary
20 find repose under its arches and refreshment in its waters.
21 In a few minutes we resumed our journey, and after a
22 ' march of twenty-three miles eventually reached the long-
23 wished for town of Dinga.
24 *¢ As we approached it, our attention was called to a small
25 crowd, principally of women and children; and on riding
26 up to see the cause of their assembling, perceived in the
27 midst of them a man stretched on the ground at full length,
28 who had, half an hour before, been deprived of both his
29 hands, a3 a punishment for the crime of stealing. A few
30 quiverings about the muscles of his legs were all that