GANGETIC HINDOOS TAN. 35^ 



of mangled carcaffes and bleached bones, fome miferable old 

 wretch, man or woman, loft to all feeling but that of fuperfti- 

 tion, will relide, and perform the fad office of receiving the bo- 

 dies, affigning each its place, and gather the remains when too 

 widely difperfed. 



This religion has in a few inftances a refemblance to the 

 Hindoo ; they have a great veneration for the cow, but confine 

 it to the filk- tailed fpecies of their own country ; they highly 

 refpea the waters of the Ganges. One of the firft efFeds of 

 the peace between us and the Lama, was the obtaining leave to 

 build a place of worfliip on the banks of the facred river. 



The Delai Lama is the great objedt of veneration of all the Tartars 

 heathen Tartars, who every year come up from the moft lam'a. ^^^^ 

 diftant parts, and make rich offerings at his flirine. Even the 

 emperor of China, a Manchew Tartar, acknowleges him in a 

 religious capacity, and entertains, at vaft expence, at his palace 

 at Pekin, an inferior Lama, deputed as his Nuncio from Thibet. 

 Even the CzMr has fent refpecStful letters, and prefents to the 

 great Lama. Numbers of Sunniajfes, or Hindoo pilgrims, vifit 

 Thibet as a holy place, and the Lama conftantly entertained a 

 body of two or three hundred in his pay. 



The Thibetiaris are of a fmaller fize, and lefs robuft make, 



than their fouthern neighbors the Boutanners ; their features 



are Tartarian ; their drefs like the Chinefe, with a conical hat, 



light boots, and a tunic of brocaded filk. 



At Lajfa the river begins to take a winding courfe to the Course of the 

 . ' • ■,-, ^ ■ -K 1 r, 7, River conti- 



fouth-eaft, till it reaches a city called in Mr. Re/iners map nued. 

 Champa, in Lat. 28' 40', beyond which it turns full fouth, and 



continues 



