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(Semigal-i Pain, Semigal-i Bala, Oayal, Phoguch, Manikal-i Bala, Kiu-
mari), Gor, and Astor: only the visit to Astor was largely abortive,
because of heavy rain. When we started in Darel on 24th July the police
were busy suppressing dissidence in the upper part of the valley, and a
squad of twenty men exchanged 5,000 rounds that day. We were there-
fore obliged to confine our work to the villages in the lower part of the
valley, venturing no further up than Manikal-i Bala. At Palus I had fallen
and broken a rib, but managed to continue without treatment. Between
these excursions I also continued the work of drawing up the measure-
ments taken at Sazin, in order to make sure they could be coordinated,
and to identify missing data.
We began work again at Sazin on 11th August, and found that the at-
mosphere of the village had changed greatly: we were able to move
around much more freely, and often without an escort. I could enter
courts and closes from which I had earlier been excluded, and could
even climb around on the flat roofs, thereby coordinating the previously
isolated groups of measurements. I could set up the theodolite on a ter-
race west of the village, and make a series of measurements which again
helped to coordinate the previous work. The houses themselves were
locked, but I could climb onto their balconies, and this enabled me to
estimate the extent of each. The few villagers who remained, who were
less important than those with whom we had dealt before, were friendly,
and one even allowed me into his house briefly. I was m fact able to
achieve more in these ten days than I had in the whole of the previous
period, though the preparation had of course been a necessary
precondition for my success.
Such notes as I was able to make on the organisation and activities of the
village were secondary, indeed almost incidental to the survey, and
made sporadically, as opportunities arose: I was there primarily as an
architect. Occasionally an individual, such as the , would volunteer
help, and on other occasions I made use of brief rests in the shade by the
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mari), Gor, and Astor: only the visit to Astor was largely abortive,
because of heavy rain. When we started in Darel on 24th July the police
were busy suppressing dissidence in the upper part of the valley, and a
squad of twenty men exchanged 5,000 rounds that day. We were there-
fore obliged to confine our work to the villages in the lower part of the
valley, venturing no further up than Manikal-i Bala. At Palus I had fallen
and broken a rib, but managed to continue without treatment. Between
these excursions I also continued the work of drawing up the measure-
ments taken at Sazin, in order to make sure they could be coordinated,
and to identify missing data.
We began work again at Sazin on 11th August, and found that the at-
mosphere of the village had changed greatly: we were able to move
around much more freely, and often without an escort. I could enter
courts and closes from which I had earlier been excluded, and could
even climb around on the flat roofs, thereby coordinating the previously
isolated groups of measurements. I could set up the theodolite on a ter-
race west of the village, and make a series of measurements which again
helped to coordinate the previous work. The houses themselves were
locked, but I could climb onto their balconies, and this enabled me to
estimate the extent of each. The few villagers who remained, who were
less important than those with whom we had dealt before, were friendly,
and one even allowed me into his house briefly. I was m fact able to
achieve more in these ten days than I had in the whole of the previous
period, though the preparation had of course been a necessary
precondition for my success.
Such notes as I was able to make on the organisation and activities of the
village were secondary, indeed almost incidental to the survey, and
made sporadically, as opportunities arose: I was there primarily as an
architect. Occasionally an individual, such as the , would volunteer
help, and on other occasions I made use of brief rests in the shade by the
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