There are houseboats in Cashmere which would dare to compare very favourably with the best on the Thames; also very simple houseboats, dunga houseboats and the modest dunga. A dunga is a very large decked-in punt, about 70 feet long and 6 to 8 feet wide, tapering very considerably at either end on this there is a structure of a light wooden frame covered, roof and sides, with thick reed matting. I will describe my own in detail and hope thereby to convey an idea of a dunga with its comforts and discomforts, for though dungas vary somewhat in their internal arrange ments, they are, on the whole, built on similar lines.