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Brahmans, but rice, if it have ghee in it, they will. They some- 

 times enter into trade and service. Durree, Kumhal, Bramoo, have 

 a general resemblance of manners and customs with the last ; but they 

 will not eat rice dressed by Brahmans, whether it have ghee in it or 

 not, but will eat other things of Brahman's dressing. None of the 

 five races has any written language or characters; but the inves- 

 tigation of their common connexion, and of their affinity with other 

 aboriginal races inhabiting other more or less secluded localities 

 throughout the plains of India, might still be managed through their 

 speech, their physical attributes, their manners and customs, if the Argus 

 jealousy of the Nepal government could by any means be charmed into 

 a more discriminating use of Chinese maxims of foreign policy. 

 Rivers falling within the above limits. 



1. The SindhUf rises from Sindhubhanjung, an offset from mount Mani- 

 chur, or the most eastern part of Sivapoor, the northern barrier of the 

 greater valley. The Sindhu has a course of about fifteen miles almost 

 due west, behind, or to the north of Sivapoor and Burmandi, through a 

 narrow fertile glen, which is somewhat interrupted by the projection of 

 the base of Burmandi, where the main road from Cathmandoo runs. 

 Above this point the glen often bears the name of Jansen; the river 

 is a mere streamlet drawing half its water moreover from the west aspect 

 of Burmandi, below the Resident's Powah, or bungalow. It falls into 

 the Tadi at Narain, or Ghur Ghaut, being divided from the Likhu by 

 Bhaloo Danra, or the bear's ridge. 



2. The Likhu, a somewhat larger stream than the Sindhu, parallel to 

 it on the north, and separated from it by Bhaloo Danra. The Likhu 

 rises from above the Kabilas ridge, which divides it from the Tadi on the 

 north. The course of the Likhu, though in general parallel to that of 

 the Sindhu, yet radiates towards the north, as the Tadi does still 

 more. The Likhu is about double the size of the Sindhu, and has a 

 course of perhaps twenty miles ; it falls into the Tadi at Choughora, 

 four miles above the lower Durbar of Nayakote. Its glen is cultivated 

 throughout, and has an average width of 300 yards in its lower part. 

 It is not a third the size of the Tadi. 



The Tadi, classically styled Suryavatti, from it taking its rise at 

 Suryakund, or the Sun's Fount, which in the most easterly of the twenty- 

 two little lakes of Gosainthan, is thrown off towards the east, as is the 



