1848] Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. 117 



ti-Yankti ; such are the foolish contradictions of Hindu Geography. 

 This eastern Kali, however, is now the actual boundary between the 

 British and Nepalese territories, and according to the Bhotias of the 

 place, has always been so ; therefore tbe map also, though theoretically 

 right, is practically wrong in giving the name of Kali to the western 

 river, the Kunti-Yankti, and drawing the red boundary line along it. 



Having crossed the Kali, the road now enters on a fine expanded 

 valley of considerable length. At this end the flat and habitable, if not 

 culturable ground at the bottom must exceed half a mile in breadth ; 

 it consists of the same accumulated alluvium and debris that I noticed 

 at the entrance of the valley between Budhi and Garbia, through 

 which the river cuts a deep and modern-looking channel, leaving, 

 mostly on the east bank, pretty extensive levels for villages and cul- 

 tivation, but the fields do not appear thriving ; the surface of the 

 ground is very stony and the soil probably not so fertile as to com- 

 pensate for the backwardness of climate and lazy slovenly tillage of the 

 Bhotias. 



The first village here is Gungi ; the houses, as usual here, ill-built, 

 flat-roofed, two (and some three) storied. 



In the fields are Phaphar cut, and wheat ripe ; wild plum trees, 

 Bonghale, with fruit like that of the English sloe, and apple trees, 

 covered with miserable little crabs. The north-east end of the village 

 land has been devastated by a great landslip which came from the 

 neighbouring mountain, Tipai, 3 years ago, covering the fields with a 

 flood of stony debris. 



On the opposite side of the river is the village of Napalchu, situated 

 on the Per-Yankti, a deep gar coming from Namjung (the 2nd of that 

 name) a snowy mountain to the south-west. 



From Kelirong we hear the sound of an avalanche, Hiunra, which the 

 Byansis call Rhi. 



Two miles further on is Nabhi, a village like the others, with a good 

 expanse of ripe wheat in the fields; and opposite to Nabhi, Ronkali, 

 on the Dangnung-Yankti, which comes from a snowy ridge on the 

 south-west, Ronkongper, through a deep ravine, dividing the mountain 

 side. A pass across the Ronkongper, now dangerous and disused, 

 once led into the Pelangar below Budhi ; it was by this route that 

 Byans was entered by Rudurpal, former Raj bar of Ascot, and by him 



