564 Journal of a trip through Kunawur, fyc. [No. 102. 



In Spiti the only coins which are received, are the old Culdar 

 rupees, and a small silver money of Ludak, of four annas in value, 

 called a " Powlee." 



Thus, as no pice are current, the value in full must either be taken 

 for your money, or you pay four annas for that which is worth but 

 one. The way my people used to manage, was to club together to take 

 a certain quantity of anything, so as to have the full value of their 

 money; but I wa3 constantly obliged to pay four annas for the cup 

 of milk for my breakfast, or drink my tea without it. 



In Hungrung, which is under the government of the Bussaher 

 Raja, another silver coin, worth two annas, and also sometimes termed 

 a " Powlee," though more properly a " Timashe/'* is current, as 

 it is likewise in Kunawur. Still, except in Kunawur, no pice 

 are received, and the people, say they have no use for them. Former- 

 ly there existed a brass currency in Hungrung and Kunawur, but it 

 has long since fallen into disuse. The inconvenience, however, is 

 not so great in Hungrung, because the Powlee is of only half the value 

 of the Ludak coin. Silver money is always readily received, because 

 it can be applied to various purposes, either in paying the rents, &c. 

 to their governments, or by melting down into ornaments. 



Lead is found in the neighbourhood of Pokh, but in such small 

 quantities that no mines are worked, and it is only when a supply 

 of balls are required, that any one will take the trouble of going in 

 search of it. 



The district of Spiti may be said to produce no trees at all, except 

 a few poplars and willows planted round the villages, to serve for 

 economical purposes when required, and which being all planted by 

 the hand of man cannot properly be admitted into a list of the pro- 

 ductions of the country, or suffered to be at all characteristic. No 

 fruits of any kind are seen, neither grapes, peaches, apricot, apples, 

 walnuts, nor in fact any of those fruits which are so abundant in 

 Kunawur. Of shrubs, the " Himalayan" and " Chinese fruze"t are 

 the most abundant, and form the chief fuel of the people ; these 

 are cut and dried in the summer months, and stored up on the 

 flat roofs of their houses, where they form thick stacks against the 



* Is this a corruption of " Timoar Shah-i V 

 t Astralagus. 



