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o'clock. I then took an opportunity of walking with 

 Mr. Templeman through his garden, which was 

 spacious and well kept, and full of European fruits 

 and vegetables. It was indeed precisely like a 

 large English kitchen garden, with a greater exu- 

 berance and rankness of growth. The soil seemed 

 wonderfully thick, as there was a new ditch, five or 

 six feet deep, which had not penetrated through the 

 rich dark vegetable mould, and yet just over his 

 fence the ground pitched down 500 or 600 feet, at 

 an angle that would make walking very difficult : 

 still even that was cultivated. 



Nov. 20. — This morning everything below us was 

 obscured by clouds, but as usual it was fine over- 

 head. We set off at half-past six, and immediately 

 descended into a ravine, and then climbed the oppo- 

 site slope ; then curving round the shoulder of a 

 ridge, the road wound at a level round a deep recess, 

 in the hollow of which below us was a very neat- 

 looking and tolerably clean "dasar," of which, as 

 we looked down upon it, we could only see the long 

 sloping roofs and overhanging verandahs. It put 

 me in mind of views of Swiss scenery with their 

 mountain villages. 



As we looked across the valley, at the road on the 

 opposite slope, it seemed the merest possible ledge, 

 but we found it a very fair one, sufficiently wide for 

 three to ride abreast, and it climbed the crest of the 

 next ridge, till we again stood on the summit of the 

 Teng'ger, and prepared to descend its southern side, 



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