296 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 1912, 
lived not only on the smell of wild ‘‘ apples,’’ but also ‘‘ on a 
variety of odours of roots and of flowers,’’ or, as Strabo has it, 
‘* on perfumes of fruits and flowers.’? In fact, we might ques- 
tion the appropriateness of the word ‘‘ apple > as translating 
the Latin malum.'! Pliny defines the word malum: ‘‘ pomi 
‘* genus, cujus varia genera, citreum, cen: Persicum, 
bs Medicum, Appianum, et alia plurima.”’ (L. 15 
Coming nearer to the sources of the Ganges we find still 
the belief that attacks of breath-seizure are occasioned by the 
wind from Lo hain pregnant with this mysterious 
poison.’ He attempted it, however, but was obliged to fall 
pte everyone in ie goth complaining of the bish or *‘ poisoned 
ind.’ t read that the people in Mr. Fras er’s 
there is little doubt that the practice noticed elsewhere is not 
unknown all along the Himalayas, wherever the same climati- 
cal conditions prevail. 
Mount Langur is mentioned not only by Griiber and Desi- 
deri, but also by Fathers Cassiano Beligatti and Orazi6 della Pen- 
na, Capuchin Missionaries. The substance of their remarks is, I 
believe, preserved in Georgi’s Alphabetum Thibetanum, pp. 446- 
447, his itinerary from Chandernagor to Lhasa being based on 
their relations (cf. p. 450). The extract I shall quote is duie 
able as confirming Gritber’ s and Desideri’s remarks. It s 
be referred to for the identification of Mt. Langur. 
‘* Lhangur: Mons stupendae celsitudinis. 
‘* De eo scribit Kircher iter designans a Sina versus Kuti, 
& Indostan: ‘ Est Langur mons omnium altissimus, ita ut im 
summitate ejus viatores vix respirare ob aéris subtilitatem queant ; 
poi is ob virulentas nonnullarum herbarum exhalatione aestivo 
tempore sine manifesto vitae periculo transiri potest. Per hune . 
montem ob horrenda praecipitia, & scopulosos tractus neque 
currus, neque jumentum transire potest, sed pedestri itinere totum 
iter conficiendum est spatio fere menstruo usque ad Cuthi.’ A 
assa vero quatriduum tantum distare tradit. Immo dies 
fere triginta a Lhassa distat. Situm -scilicet montis Langur 
confundit haud dubie Hruditus scriptor cum situ Montis Cambala. 
Symptomata tamen, quibus viatores affici scribit, propria a 
Montis ney “Nequs vel a sola aéris subtilitate, vel a virulen 


1 Pliny’s text is as follows: ‘* Nullum illis apes , tantum radi- 
cum pti vel vanes odores et silvestrium malor 
2 Cf. Journal of a tour through part of the Snowy tas of the Him- 
ala ‘Mouniater G London, 1820, pp. 435, 442, 449 
