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2 be no more fighting on their side of the river. The
3 poor people seemed delighted at the treatment they
4 had received at the hands of their victors, and the
5 security from all molestation which had been promised
6 them. They brought me apples, which, with iced water,
7 was my sole nourishment until the following day ; and
8 not a bad diet either is this to work on.
9 The Nagaris struck me as a particularly pleasant
10 people, and there was an honest look in their rosy
11 faces. Many of the women were distinctly pretty. It
12 seemed strange to be thus marching alone through the
13 midst of a tribe that had been fighting hard with us
14 but a few hours before, and, after doing our best to
15 kill each other one day, to be thus on the most ami-
16 cable terms the next. There are no other Eastern
17 countries that I know of, and I should say there are
18 few in Europe, where one could venture on such an
19 experiment as this ; but I was, indeed, perfectly safe
20 with our recent enemies, and it must be allowed that
21 these tribesmen never exhibited the sUghtest treachery
22 in their dealings with us. They fought well; they
23 faithfully observed truces; and, as soon as they had
24 come to the conclusion that they had had fighting
25 •enough, they most philosophically accepted the posi-
26 tion, and to all appearance bore us no ill-will. That
27 they have committed acts of atrocious treachery is
28 well known ; but I suppose they were wise enough to
29 realize the policy of conciliating us by their excellent
30 conduct on this occasion.
31 However it may have been, I was allowed to travel
32 thus almost from one end to the other of the Nagar
33 State unmolested. Looking across the river, I saw that
34 the Hunza villages — of which there was one every two
35 or three miles — ^were, like those of Nagar, enclosed