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was put in each cup, and then each man dipped a bit of 

 his cake into the liquid (it was very thin indeed), and ate 

 decently and slowly, though they must have been hungry 

 enough. They then smeared the cakes with ghi, and when 

 the meat was boiled, finished off with that. The head-man, 

 who turned out to be the Panbuh or head-man of Zarang, 

 remarked that there were three kinds of tea, and that this 

 which he was drinking was the best. As it was Pulam- 

 pore orange pekoe, his taste was undeniable. Danam, the 

 head-man of Zarang, was a small man, w^ell dressed and 

 clean-looking, well bred, and evidently of a class superior 

 to his companions ; something like a well-to-do head-man 

 of a village down in the plains of India. This was the 

 gentleman who went down on his knees and roared for 

 help on the banks of the river, and who was hammered by 

 the Garhwalis. His conversation and gestures were very 

 sprightly, and he talked incessantly, describing his mis- 

 fortunes and abusing his enemies. But everything was 

 done in a gentlemanly and well-bred manner (quite different 

 from his companions, who treated him with respect, though 

 in eating and drinking there was perfect equality), his 

 bearing free and unembarrassed in the extreme. He was 

 always addressed as " Panboh," a word I had not heard 

 before ; it evidently bears some relationship to the Burmese 

 " Boh," with which we have now become so familiar. 

 Another man, by name Temdians, of village Tangi, a 

 zami'ndar, was a very ugly specimen of humanity ; he had 

 a very pronounced hare-lip, and his front teeth projected 

 hideously from the aperture; his dress was dirty in the 

 extreme. These Tibetans had been deprived of 227 sheep, 

 220 bags of salt, 2i bags of porridge flour, half a bag of 

 wheat, 1 bag of tea, 5 sheep-loads of ghi, and other matters. 

 All the sheep had heavy fleeces — the most valuable part of 

 the plundered property. When the Panboh and his party 



