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and some with tracings of bulls and 

 other animals cut on them but left 

 unfinished, suggesting work suddenly 

 interrupted. The only other traces of 

 human handiwork are two small spaces 

 inclosed by rough stone walls. They 

 are now occupied by stunted trees, al- 

 most the only ones which grow on the 

 upper ridge, which runs for three or four 

 miles from north to south ; the base of 

 the mountain extends over at least 

 twenty miles, and its slopes are for the 

 most part clothed with wood. 



Such were the surroundings amongst 

 which a party of us emerged about noon 

 one day after an arduous climb of five 

 or six hours through the woods on the 

 eastern face of Mahendra. 



Ever since it first became known to 



