110 Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. [July, 



Weeds and jungle give place to flowers and neat shrubs ; a fine 

 Larkspur ; Juniper (Juniperus squamosa) Khas : Padbank, Bhot : 

 Pdmd (in Jwar they call this Bit) ; another sort of Juniper with sharp 

 thorny leaves exuding rank turpentine, (J. religiosa) Bhot : Lhdld, a wil- 

 low-leafed shrub, the branches covered with small round yellow berries, 

 a strong (edible) acid, (Hippophae salicifolia) Bhot : Tdrwa-chuk. 



The road passes through Garbia, the first village of Upper Byans ; 

 the houses are mostly two-storied but ill-built affairs, and disfigured with 

 a quantity of poles stuck about them (for ornament or superstition ?) 

 in all directions ; they are flat-roofed. The elevation of Garbia is, accord- 

 ing to Webb, 10,272 feet. 



The fields here contain Barley (Iiordeum cceleste) Khas : TJa-jo ; 

 Bhot: Chdmd; Wheat, Bhot: Ndphal ; Turnips, and the two Buck- 

 wheats, all ripe or ripening. 



A little beyond Garbia stands the remnant of what was once the vil- 

 lage of Chindu, now one or two houses, and a few fields, standing on the 

 top of a narrow shelf of ground which the encroachment of the river is 

 fast driving to the wall of rock behind. The base of this valley (like 

 that of upper Jwar) is formed by an accumulation of old alluvium and 

 debris from the surrounding mountain-sides, in strata of considerable ag- 

 gregate thickness and loose consistency ; through which the river appears 

 to have cut its present channel, three or four hundred feet below the 

 site of the villages, and to the great danger of those which are too near 

 its bank. The Cheto hill above Budhi is in fact the abrupt termina- 

 tion of this elevated bed of detritus, forming southward an acclivity of 

 2000 feet or more (in vertical height) ; to the east and north-east, where 

 the river breaks through, it appears in cliffs and landslips many hun- 

 dred feet high. 



From Garbia the road decends to the bed of the river, and crosses 

 by a substantial Sanga, a little above the confluence of the Tinkar, 

 which is a large stream (not much inferior to the main body of the 

 Kali) coming in two branches from the east and north-east. 



We encamped on level ground by the river side, a little above the 

 bridge and under a steep bank, on the top of which is the village of 

 Ohangrew. 



The Kali now turns abruptly to our left (N. W.), through a defile of 

 ^.teep rocky mountains, the natural grandeur of which is raised to sub- 



