Will you kindly stop it!" the merchant would say; and Linforth would then proceed to demonstrate how extremely valuable to the people of Chiltistan a better road would be: "Kohara is already a great mart.

In your bazaars at summer-time you see traders from Turkestan and Tibet and Siberia, mingling with the Hindoo merchants from Delhi and Lahore.

The road will bring you still more trade." The spokesman went back to the broad street of Kohara seemingly well content, and inch by inch the road crept nearer to the capital.
But Luffe was better acquainted with the Chiltis, a soft-spoken race of men, with musical, smooth voices and polite and pretty ways.

But treachery was a point of honour with them and cold-blooded cruelty a habit.

There was one particular story which Luffe was accustomed to tell as illustrative of the Chilti character.
"There was a young man who lived with his mother in a little hamlet close to Kohara.