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reached in the memory of some of the oldest men of the village, but 

 it has gradually broken away, which may perhaps indicate some ame- 

 lioration of the temperature in this quarter. — The river runs past Milum 

 in a N. W.* direction, and towards the snow-bed nearly North. t 



The man who came in from Gurtope, wore round his neck a pair 

 of goggles,^ made apparently of black horse hair, worn when crossing 

 over snow. For the coarse broad cloth which is carried to the fair at 

 Gurtope, they say they receive generally 25 rupees for the length 

 of two breadths, which ought to be about 3 yards ; allowing the cloth, 

 which is generally the case, to be 1 J yard wide, little more than 8 rupees 

 per yard ; but it must be of the coarsest kind, and such perhaps as is 

 sold in Calcutta for 3 rupees per yard. The bones§ which are brought 

 by the Bhoteahs for sale at the fair held at Bageswur, it appears they 

 purchase at Gurtope, and consequently they are not found amongst 

 the Himalaya, which had formerly given an interest to these produc- 

 tions, but which must now, if the above account prove true, cease 

 altogether. 



25th September. — Halt ; employed in getting a lesson from Herbert 

 in the use of the theodolite, and in preparing for our visit to the Oonta 

 Dhura Pass. Herbert and Cole too unwell to accompany Conway and 

 myself. Procured our bottle of gooseberries, which I boiled in the 

 hopes of preserving them. 



26th September. — Marched at llh. 20m. a. m. Our own coolies 

 having refused to proceed with us to the foot of the Pass, procured 

 people and jubboos from the village. Our people were frightened 

 I imagine at the exaggerated account of the Bhoteahs regarding the 

 snow. 



Crossing the Goonka on a sanga opposite Milum about a quarter 

 mile distant ; it is about the same breadth as the Gooree, but the body 



* i. e. From the N. W.— J« H. B. 



f From the North.— J. H. B. 



\ These horse hair goggles are far more cool, and they more protect the eye from the 

 effects of snow-glare, than green or blue glass spectacles, or wire goggles. — J. H. B. 



§ Fossil bones, Bijlee ke Hur, nearly always procurable in the Almora bazaar, and 

 used as medicine ! I am told, in a pounded state. 1 have rarely been able to obtain 

 teeth or other characteristic specimens. The bones are chiefly those of ruminants, 

 and are found in the hills immediately adjacent to the Sutlej, in the first part of its 

 course through Thibet. The village of Doompoo is one chief site.— J. H. B. 



