indi border. The
Deputy Commissioner is also responsible for our relations with 98,000
trans-border tribesmen. The district is a wedge interposed between
Kashmir on the east and Peshawar and the tribal territory north of
Peshawar on the west. The Indus becomes the border about eight miles to
the north of Amb, and the district consists mainly of the areas drained
by its tributaries the Unhar, Siran, Dor, and Haro. On the eastern side
the Jhelam is the boundary with Kashmir from Kohala to a point below
Domel, where the Kunhar meets it. Thence the Kunhar is the boundary to
near Garhi Habibullah. To the south of Garhi the watershed of the Kunhar
and Jhelam is close to these rivers and the country is very rough and
poor. West of Garhi it is represented by the chain which separates the
Kunhar and Siran Valleys and ends on the frontier at Musa ka Musalla
(13,378 feet). This chain includes one peak over 17,000 feet, Mali ka
Parvat, which is the highest in the district. The Kunhar rises at the
top of the Kagan Glen, where it has a course of about 100 miles to
Balakot. Here the glen ends, for the fall between Balakot and Garhi
Habibullah is comparatively small. There is a good mule road from Garhi
Habibullah to the Babusar Pass at the top of the Kagan Glen, and beyond
it to Chilas. There are rest-houses, some very small, at each stage from
Balakot to Chilas. The Kagan is a beautiful mountain glen. At places the
narrow road looks sheer down on the river hundreds of feet below,
rushing through a narrow gorge with the logs from the _deodar_ forests
tossing on the surface, and the sensation, it must be confessed, is not
wholly pleasant. But again it passes close to some quiet pretty stretch
of this same Kunhar. There are side glens, one of which opposite Naran
contains the beautiful Safarmulk Lake. Near the top of the main glen the
Lulusar Lake at a height of 11,167 feet and with an average depth of 150
feet is passed on the left. In the lower part of the glen much maize is
grown. As one ascends almost the last crop to be seen is a coarse barley
sown in June and reaped in August. Where the trees and the crops end the
rich grass pastures begin. Kagan covers between one-third and
one-fourth of the whole district. The Siran flows through the beautiful
Bhogarmang Glen, at the foot of which it receives from the west the
drainage of the Konsh Glen. Forcing its way through the rough Tanawal
hills, it leaves Feudal Tanawal and Badhnak on its r