1 THE GREAT LAKE. 153
2 diately began to flow. I saw a bottle filled with
3 the holy water of the lake by a Sikh officer in attend-
4 ance, and I then carried it with me to Lahor, where
5 T presented some of it to Runjit, in a silver cup orna-
6 mented with cows' heads, which was made for me in
7 Kashmir. The old man seemed much pleased with
8 this attention, and No Nehal Singh eagerly dipped
9 his fingers into the water, and reverently moistened
10 his forehead with it.
11 The shores of the Wulur or great lake are verdant,
12 but comparatively bare of trees. They slope gently
13 down to the water's edge, from the lofty range of moun-
14 tains which surround it on the north-east, but they are
15 flat and marshy towards the plain. Its greatest length
16 from Nungil to Bundurpur is not more than twelve
17 miles, its width from Surapara to Baba Shukur-u-Din
18 (thanks or gratitude of the faith) is not more than
19 eight and a half. There are numerous villages on its
20 banks, the largest of which is Bundurpur, at the
21 mouth of a fine valley, down which flows the prin-
22 cipal feeder of the lake ; it is at the same time the
23 commencement of the pass to Gurys and little Tibet.
24 Three miles before the boat arrives at Bundurpur
25 we reach Lank, or "the island," the only one in the
26 Lake. It was raised and shaped by Zyn-ul-ab-u-Din,
27 who affirmed that he saw " the round towers of other
28 days" beneath the water, — the ruins of a city that is
29 said to have existed where the lake is now ; and with
30 these he made the island. The enormous mass of