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of Hindus ; and he thence returned into India, land- 

 ing on its weft coaft, in the port of Sanyanpoor, 

 fituated, I fuppofe, towards or in the Cutch or Sinde 

 countries. 



XIV. From this port he journeyed to Balkh (where 

 he alfo mentions Hindus being fettled) and to Bokhara, 

 at which he notices having viewed the famous Berjah 

 of Khaja Chestee, and the loftieft minaror fpire he 

 has ever feen. From this plaee, after twelve days 

 journey, he arrived at Samarkand, which he defcribes 

 as a large city, having a broad river flowing under it : 

 and thence our traveller arrived, after a ten days jour- 

 ney, at Budukhfhan, in the hills around which rubies 

 are, he fays, found ; whence he travelled into Cafhmir ; 

 and from that palling over the hills towards Hin- 

 duftan, he came to the Gungowtri, or " Decent of the 

 <c Ganges,*" where there is, he obferves, a itatue of 

 Baghiratha ; at which place the river may, he fays, 

 be leaped over : and he further notices, that thirty cofs 

 to the fouthward of Gungowtri there is a fountain, 

 or fpring, called the Jumnowtriox Yumnowtri, which he 

 defcribes as the fource of the Jumna or Yamuna River. 



XV. Our traveller, leaving this part of the coun- 

 try, came in a fouth-eaft direction into Oude, and 

 went thence into Nepaul, the feveral towns in which 

 he defcribes, incluiiveof its capital, Catmandee, where 

 flow, he obferves, the four rivers of Naugmutty, 

 Bifhenmutty, Roodrmutty, and Munmutty ; and at 

 feven <3ays journey beyond which, he notices a (ration 

 called Gojfayn-thaun, where Mahadeo took poifonand 

 flept, as related in the Hindu books ; from which 

 place (defcribed by him as a fnowy tracl) he returned 

 to Catmandee, and went thence in another direction 

 into Thibet, crolTmg in his way to it the Cofa river 

 by a bridge compofed of iron chains; and obferving 

 that at Leftee, the third day's journey beyond the 

 Cofa, is the boundary of Nepaul and Thibet, where 



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