44. AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKEERS, 



guards are Rationed on both fides ; whence, in another 

 day's travelling, Praun Poory arrived at Khafla, a 

 town within Bhote or Thibet ; (for by the former 

 name the natives often underftand what we mean by 

 the latter ; ) hence he proceeded to Chehang> and from 

 that to Koortee, where paries are given ; and then 

 croffed over the hills (called in that country Lungoor) 

 into the plain of Tingri, beyond which one day's jour- 

 ney is Gunguir; and at the end of the next Jangee, 

 (from Jangu>) which means, he fays, a bridge over a 

 river there : after which our traveller proceeds to no- 

 tice the other diftances and ftations of each munzel, 

 or day's journey, (with other particulars, the infer- 

 tion of all which would render this addrefs too prolix,) 

 till he reached LahafTa, and the mountain of Patala, 

 the feat of the Delai Lama, whence he proceeded to 

 Degurcha, which he mentions as that of the Taishoo 

 Lama ; and then, in a journey of upwards of eighty 

 days, reached to the lake of Maun Surwur, (called in 

 the Hindu books Mdnajarovara ,) and his defcription 

 of it I (hall here infert in a literal tranflation of his 

 own words. 



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XVI. j <c Its circumference (i. e. of the lake of 

 Maun Surwur) is of fix days journey, and around it 

 are twenty or five-and-twenty Goumaris, or " re- 

 ligious ftations or temples, and the habitations of 

 the people called Dowki, whofe drefs is like that of 

 cf the Thibetians. The Maun Surwur is one lake; 

 " but in the middle of it there arifes, as it were, a 

 " partition wall • and the northern part is ca\ted*Maun 

 " Surwur, and the fouthern Lunkadh, or Lunkdeh. 

 " From the Maun Surwur part i flues one river, and 

 " from the Lunkadh part two rivers : The firffc is 

 €C called Brahma, where Puresram making Tupi/ya, 

 " the Brahmaputra iflued out, and took its courfe to 

 H the ca ft ward ; and of the two ftrcams that iffue 

 " from the Lunkadh, one is called the Surju, being 

 " the fame which flows by Ayoddya, orOude; and 



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