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



that way, as being the more direct into Pruang) lies the district of 

 Dhuli, which is the Alpine part of Bazingia, having direct communica- 

 tion and considerable traffic with Pruang via Jidi-khar. 



Dhuli, is said to have but one single village of Bhotias, all the rest of 

 the people being Khasia. 



Bazingia is ruled by a Raja, now Gajraj Sing, who married a daugh- 

 ter of the Maharaj Raj Rajindra s(h)ah Bikram of Nipal. 



Beyond Bazingia, still further east, are Humla (north) and Jumla 

 (south) through which flows the Karnali after leaving Pruang ; and in 

 Jumla it receives another branch, the Beri (or Bheri) whence the united 

 river goes by the name of Beri-karnali. 



Dense clouds and rain all this afternoon ; the hut of bare mats which 

 the Bhotias have made for me (very clumsily) is by no means comforta- 

 ble in this weather. Rain continues all night. 



25 th September. — Morning still cloudy, but rain stopped. We con- 

 tinue our journey towards Kunti. The road turns off to our left (N. 

 W.) following the course of the Kali, and passing over some very rough 

 and steep ground, a ruinous bank of landslip formed by the channel 

 which the river has excavated through the loose strata of the valley 

 bottom. The mountains rise close on either side in fine precipitous 

 walls of rock, the clay slate formation common to these iUpine regions, 

 the stratification of which has been violently disturbed, contorted, and 

 broken into thousands of castellated crags, the variety of the colors, 

 many shades of red, grey and purple, adding to the picturesque effect. 

 The mountain to our right is Kelirong ; in the map its upper part is 

 called Byans Rikhi, and the lower part Kourtekh. Byans Rikhi is the 

 proper name, not of the mountain, but of the gentleman supposed to dwell 

 on the top of it, who appears to be identical with the great Rishi or sage 

 Vyasa or Vyas-deva, reputed author of the Mahabharat, and sundry 

 Purans, &c, and Byans seems to be nothing else than the modern 

 form of the old Sanskrit name Vy&sa. 



Hirkun (or Hurkun) Budha of Garbia, Tokdar of Byans, who 

 accompanies me as Cicerone, &c. asserts that some of the Bhotias have 

 climbed up this mountain for three days and not got to the top (the 

 elevation of which is near 20,000 feet.) 



Hereabouts are Jakti on the N. East, and Siti on the S. West 

 bank of the river, hamlets cultivated by the Garbials ; they have suf- 

 fered much from landslip, and are not permanently inhabited. 



