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vation ; the houses, which are built in clusters, are of wood, 

 or wattle and mud, with grass thatch. The villagers, 

 though an indolent, staring race, are quiet and respectable; 

 the men are handsome, the women, though less so, often 

 good-looking. They have fine cattle, and excellent crops. 



Immediately above Chingtam, the Tambur is joined by a 

 large affluent from the west, the Mywa, which is crossed by 

 an excellent iron bridge, formed of loops hanging from two 

 parallel chains, along which is laid a plank of sal timber. 

 Passing through the village, we camped on a broad ter- 

 race, from sixty to seventy feet above the junction of the 

 rivers, whose beds are 2100 feet above the sea. 



Mywa Guola (or bazaar) is a large village and mart, 

 frequented by Nepalese and Tibetans, who bring salt, 

 wool, gold, musk, and blankets, to exchange for rice, coral, 

 and other commodities ; and a custom-house officer is 

 stationed there, Avith a few soldiers. The houses are of 

 wood, and well built : the public ones are large, with 

 verandahs, and galleries of carved wood ; the workmanship 

 is of Chinese character, and inferior to that of Katmandoo ; 

 but in the same style, and quite unlike anything I had 

 previously seen. 



The river-terrace is in all respects similar to that at the 

 junction of the Tambur and Khawa, but very extensive : 

 the stones it contained were of all sizes, from a nut to 

 huge boulders upwards of fifteen feet long, of which 

 many strewed the surface, while others were in the bed of 

 the river : all were of gneiss, quartz, and granite, and had 

 doubtless been transported from great elevations, as the 

 rocks in situ — both here and for several thousand feet 

 higher up the river — w r ere micaceous schists, dipping in 

 various directions, and at all angles, with, however, a general 

 strike to the north-west. 



