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are snowed up in the winter and are approachable in the summer only. 

 There are images at all of them. No cultivation near them. 



2. Tenna. — Rather a short journey, about 10 miles. The route 

 nearly level, and the country cultivated and well peopled. Wheat 

 ripens at Tenna, and turnips, cabbages and other vegetables are abun- 

 dant. 



3. Goroogootang. — About 8 miles in the direction of north by east. 

 The road lies over a level country which is well cultivated with wheat 

 and barley. There is a pottery here, and a Dak Chowkey, also houses 

 for the shelter of travellers ; one for Lamas and respectable people, 

 another for the poor. At the latter you pay about 2 annas — a Kakum, 

 or 4th part of the silver Mohur, not a coin of this value, but literally the 

 quarter of a Mohur. Traders alone pay ; pilgrims and priests do not. 



4. Dochen.* — About 8 miles North by East. The road level and the 

 country cultivated. There is a large lake here called " Dochencho ;"f 

 its length is N. and South about two miles ; its greatest diameter a mile 

 and half. It contains many kinds of fish, and the " Peu" (a native 

 Carbonate of Soda, I believe) is found on its banks. In the summer 

 season the banks of the lake are overgrown with a long grass 4 feet 

 high, called Choomik. In winter they are bare. The " Changmo" or 

 weeping-willow grows close to the water all round the lake. No 

 wooden boats on the lake, but the fishermen use boats made of hides 

 stretched over a basket-like framework, and sown together with lea- 

 ther whangs, the seams being rubbed over with beeswax. These 

 boats carry 4 or 5 men, and are so light that one man carries them 

 easily. The fish are caught in nets. Hooks and bait not used. The 

 fish is preserved by simple drying in the sun, and exported to Phari 

 and to " Menchona," a populous district to the northwards. 



5. Kala Puktang. — 12 to 15 miles in a north and easterly direc- 

 tion. Here there is a lake of the same name. Its size is equal to 

 that of the Dochen one : but it is celebrated on account of the great 

 quantity offish it contains. The country around this lake is barren; 

 but it is more populous than around Dochen. The people live by the 

 fisheries, which are very productive, and yield an annual revenue, which 



* Dochia of Klaproth.— B. H. H. 



t " Choo" is water ia Tibetan. " Tso" is Lake; this may be the water or Lake of 

 Dochen. 



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