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A sugar cane nursery at high enough altitude to induce flowering

 

 

Traffic on a shady road beneath the casuarine trees

 

 

Going north from Rawalpindi and ever higher, we came to the Murree Hills, an important retreat from the summer heat in the days of empire.

 

 

 

 

 

Cow dung, which would be so valuable as a fertiliser, is the principal fuel. The pattern on the pats is made by the hand which stuck them on to the wall.

 

 

 

 

 

When dry, the pats were scraped off and heaped and some of them were later made into conical stacks surfaced with mud, to keep them dry for the winter.

 

 

 

 

 

This ancient land was an archaeologist’s paradise. Excavations at Udigram in the Swat Valley.

 

 

The second city at Taxila

 

 

Buddhist monks’ cells at Taxila

 

 

A defaced Buddha

 

 

Village scenes

 

 

 

 

 

Street scene in Peshawar

 

 

Signboard in Peshawar

 

 

Oxen pulling huge carts of unbaled cotton

 

 

Threshing wheat by dragging a heavy sledge round and round

 

 

Buffaloes enjoying the water on a hot afternoon

 

 

One of them being groomed

 

 

Camels in a village street

 

 

A bridge of boats over the Indus

 

 

Steam trains were still around in 1966

 

 

The distillery adjacent to the sugar factory in Mardan. Alcohol burns wonderfully.

 

 

West of Lahore, the scene of our experiment in alternating rice and sugar beet crops within a twelve-month span.

 

 

Weaver birds’ nests at the roadside

 

 

Irrigation

 

 

Nicholas Craze getting a safe drink of water from a tube well

 

 

A beautiful statue in the museum in Peshawar

 

 

The Fort in Peshawar, guarding the Khyber Pass

 

 

Wooden effigy from a Chitral chief’s tomb in the Peshawar Museum

 

 

A Peshawar street just before election time

 

 

Tonga in a Peshawar street

 

 

Local arts and crafts

 

 

Bill Johnson signing in to the semi-independent frontier state of Swat

 

 

An orange seller on the Swati border

 

 

Richard Goddard Wilson as we go over the Malakand Pass and enter Swat

 

 

 

 

 

More views on the way into Swat

 

 

 

 

 

The Swat Valley

 

 

 

 

 

The Swat Valley north of Saidu Sharif

 

 

 

 

 

Clearing up a landslide north of Bahrain. Each resident man can be called up for a period of free labour for the State. There was a payment of one rupee a day for refreshment.

 

 

An interesting bridge over the Swat River near Madjan

 

 

The river near Madjan showing the terracing

 

 

The tributary Daral River at Bahrain

 

 

Bill Johnson, Nicholas Craze and Sydney Ellerton picnicing by the upper Swat River

 

 

A tributary valley high in the mountains

 

 

Nomads moving with their herds. The calf had sore feet.

 

 

Mountain house built of rocks and logs

 

 

In the village near the trial we were entertained in full public view

 

 

 

 

 

In the lower valley it was early summer but at high altitude it was still spring, with alpine plants flowering

 

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