Aitul, 1848. 



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they come to a stream in hot weather, and expert, even 

 admirable swimmers, these people never take to the water 

 for the purpose of ablution. In disposition they are 



LEPUHA GIKL AND BHOODIS1' LAMA. 



amiable and obliging, frank, humorous, and polite, without 

 the servility of the Hindoos ; and their address is free and 

 unrestrained. Their intercourse with one another and 

 with Europeans is scrupulously honest ; a present is 

 divided equally amongst many, without a syllable of 

 discontent or grudging look or word :' each, on receiving 



