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from the ancle to the knee. Their short boots are made of goatskin 

 or sheepskin, with the hair or wool turned inwards, and well stuffed 

 with wool, which while it makes them warm to the wearer gives rather 

 a clumsy appearance to his feet. The cap is generally a piece of goat- 

 skin with the hair inwards, or else a woollen one edged with skin or 

 coarse red silk. The women go bare headed, but they wear lappets 

 round the cheeks, and over the forehead, from which a broad band well 

 studded with large flat badly-flawed turquoises and cornelians, passed 

 over the head gradually narrowing until it reaches the waist behind. 

 The hair is dressed in numerous thin plaits, which hang behind and 

 over the shoulders, forming a complete fringe or rather a sort of well 

 greased mane to the head and neck. They frequently wear long great 

 coats and leggings like the men ; but I have seen them also dressed in 

 three or four thick woollen petticoats, and a sheepskin jacket with the 

 wool turned inwards over the coat. The men also wear these sheep- 

 skin jackets when they feel cold : and their tents are well supplied with 

 them, as both sexes put them on when they go to rest. 



The men are generally from 5 feet to 5£ feet in height, and the 

 women from 4f to 5 feet. Yet they are hardy and even strong. I 

 have often seen the roof of my tent, which was wadded with cotton, 

 carried throughout a whole march by one of these diminutive women ; 

 although the taller and finer-looking men of Simla declared it to be 

 too heavy for one of them to carry. These Nomads are generally of a 

 deep brown complexion ; the girls are however rather fairer, and some 

 of them have colour in their cheeks. They all have the small eyes of 

 the Tartar races, and to use the words of an old traveller, they are " a 

 square, stout, strong people having platter faces and flat noses." Their 

 ears are particularly large, and many of them wear ear-rings. Both 

 men and women carry about them all their property excepting some 

 wooden pails for milk and the few large iron pans which they ha?e for 

 cooking their food. — Knives and spoons, pipes and tobacco pouches, 

 flint and steel, and a small cup, either of iron, brass, or wood, are 

 carried by every one. These are usually crammed inside the great coat 

 above the waist, where also may be found a long piece of woollen rope 

 for fastening packages, and occasionally a single or double flageolet, 

 either of wood or brass. 



Their cattle consist of herds of Y&ks, or Grunting oxen, with the 



