1844.] a?id on Gerard's Account of Kunawar. 209 



houses called dogree or shumung, where they employ themselves in 

 making butter. — Gerard, p. 79-80. 



The Kunawarees are rather all agriculturists than all traders, and 

 a strict Polyandry at once implies, that the people have a limited sup- 

 ply of food at home, and scarcely any from abroad. The people of 

 Lower Kunawar are not traders in the sense meant by Gerard ; even 

 now very few of them go to Garoo and Leh, and their traffic consists 

 in exchanging woollens and fruits, or gram and butter. The flocks of 

 sheep and goats do not furnish much, if any, butter, and the greater 

 portion of that article, used in southern Tibet, is taken across the hills 

 via Ram pur and other places. 



A mere sheep-fold is called shirnang, but where a little cultivation 

 is attached to it, the term is dogree. 



Trade of Kunawar. — Almost all the trade (of Kunawar) is con- 

 ducted by barter. — Gerard, p. 181. 



This was more particularly the case when Gerard wrote than at 

 present. The increasing trade in shawl-wool and charas render the 

 export of coin necessary, but it is probable that whrfle the opium trade 

 lasted, the value of exports and imports was nearly the same. 



The trade in charas has arisen, and that in shawl-wool has greatly 

 increased, within the last few years. 



The accompanying table will give some information regarding the 

 exports from Tibet to Rampur. 



