64 TRAVEL, ADVENTUEE, AND SPOKT. 



the rocks with which he is liable to come into colli- 

 sion, he will soon have all the breath knocked out of 

 his body. On consulting a Continental savant, who 

 had been in the inner Himaliya, as to whether I 

 could gt-t people there to carry me in a dandy, he 

 said, " Zey vill carry you, no doubt ; but zey vill 

 bomp you." And bump me they did, until they 

 bumped me out of adherence to that mode of travel. 

 Indeed they hated and feared having to carry me so 

 much, that I often wondered at their never adopting 

 the precipice alternative. But in the Himaliyan 

 states the villagers have to furnish the traveller, 

 and especially the English traveller, with the car- 

 riage which he requires, and at a certain fixed rate. 

 This is what is called the right of bigdr, and without 

 the exercise of it travelling would be almost impos- 

 sible among the mountains. I also had a special 

 punvannah, which would have entitled me, in case 

 of necessity, to seize what I required ; but this I 

 kept in the background. 



The stages from Simla to Pangay, along the cut 

 bridle-path, are as follows, according to miles : 



