1837.] Journal of a Trip to the Burenda Pass in 1836. 911 



In the tout ensemble of a well dressed hill-man of the interior, 

 there is a rough and independent bearing which added to the distant 

 resemblance in dress, not unpleasingly reminds one of the sturdy- 

 mountaineer of old Scotia. In make they are robust and well limbed, 

 with legs that would be far from disgracing even the much loved 

 tartan of the Gael. 



The ottah or flour is carried in the skins of goats roughly formed 

 into bags, with the hair left on. 



Our march on the 3rd October was long, owing to the scarcity of 

 water, and the path lay one while over dark and frowning rocks with 

 the traces of bears on every side ; and at another, through deep 

 forest tracts. 



The changes of temperature were here very great, for over the bare 

 rocky pathway the sun glowed with such vigour, that we were com- 

 pelled to toil up the steep ascents with our coats thrown off, while on 

 entering the forest tracts, the air struck so damp and chill that we 

 were glad to put them on again. At length we halted beneath a lofty 

 hill, called Callag or Carrag, far removed from any village. On the 

 hill above us we found a bed of juniper bushes, the birch tree and 

 mountain ash, while at the lower ground where we were encamped, 

 currant bushes both black and red were in abundance, and all bearing 

 quantities of fruit, but possessing little flavour. 



Here again we found the monaul and also the Cornish chough 5 or 

 red-legged crow (phyrrocorax graculus). Bears were very numerous 

 and their traces quite fresh, and covering the ground in the vicinity 

 of the currant bushes, which were broken down and destroyed in 

 many places, in the attempt to obtain the fruit. 



After breakfast the next morning we proceeded down a steep and 

 wooded glen, the path often interrupted by a hill stream, over which 

 sometimes we had difficulty in passing ; fallen timber also impeded 

 our progress not a little. This glen was thickly wooded the whole way 

 and at last debouched upon a very pretty spot enclosed between high 

 hills. Here we encamped at a small village called Demrara, in the 

 perguna of Bansdrr. Supplies procurable. 



Walnuts, peaches and crab apples were here growing wild in the 

 jangals. The chough was very numerous at this place, roosting 

 among the rugged cliffs above our encampment. 



In the lower and moister parts of the glen during this day's march 

 we found many plants of the beautiful mulgedium sagittatum, a figure 

 of which occurs in Royle's illustrations ; the plants were in flower 

 and also bearing seed. 

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