220 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1912. 
body and stitched on quite close, which they do not take 
off until it rots on them and falls to pieces. On their head 
they wear — pointed hoods of the same material. They 
never wash their hands, and they give, as their reason, that 
it is improper - defile so limpid and beautiful an element 
as water. They marry only once, and then one wife only. 
When they have two or three children, they live like brother 
— sister]. When one of them dies, the one who survives 
does not =e They have no idols, and live in clans 
like the Brazilian 
They are ouers red by sorcerers. When some one dies, 
they examine their books and consult their soroerers, and 
They fight on foot, and have no king. The greater number 
of them have ruddy faces and fair hair. Their weapons are 
bows, arrows and sw words. Their dishes and porringers are 
pieces of dead men’s skulls. They are given to alms-giving. 
They subsist on the making of felt, which they come to sell 
in a city on this side called Negarcot.! They come down 
in June, July, August and September; they cannot come 
down during the other months of the year on account of 
the snows. 
Here I stop this relation. I made it as short as was 
consistent with truth. And that this truth may be better 
known, - beg of the reader to pray to Our Lord for the 
Fathers occupied in this ministry. From St. Paul’s College 
of the Society of Jesus, Goa, in these parts of India, the 26th 
November [15]82 

thants mentioned by Monserrate (Or. Cong. II, Conq. I, D. IT, § £8), to 
identify them with the sore or, LD ects the Bhutanis (J pe = 
96, p. 55 and n. 38). HS eridge pointed out (J. Oy 
1906, p. 331) that the Soiviiwas oo Aquaviva were the Bhoting of 
Almora and Garhwal, or the Tibetans. Monserrate’s map in Mong, 
Leg. Comm. removes all doubt. It places Both and the Botthanti 
beyond the Himalayas, near Lake Manasarowar. Compare this 
passage with the description taken by Purchas from du Jarric, or 
Peruschi. Cf. J. TatBoys WHEELER’S Harly Travels in India, Calcutta, 
1864, p. 14. 


