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destruction of their commander and comrades, effected their escape by 

 Lipu-Lekh into Byans and Kumaon. 



Our road now turned to the westward ; half a mile up the right bank 

 of the Tidya-chu stood Maghram, a small village, of note only as being 

 the residence of the second Makhpun, whose district, " Tidya," lies on 

 the south side of the Chu. The elevation ofMaghram is about 14,500 

 feet, being 250 above the bottom of the Tidya-chu. 



"There was a sound of revelry by night," a noisy concert of singing 

 and instrumental music, very like the oratoris of the Hindus, proceed- 

 ing from the Haweli of the Makhpun ; perhaps, as Bhauna suggested, 

 on the occasion of his son's marriage, which promised to come off about 

 this time, and Pruang Zungpun might possibly be among the wedding 

 guests. We saw dark shadows of men flitting across the lights through 

 the open door. I longed to approach and look in upon the strange scene, 

 which would have been rendered doubly strange by the sudden appari- 

 tion of a " Feeling"* visitor, but the diversion was not worth the pos- 

 sible cost to my companions, if not myself. The Bhotias indeed, thought 

 it unsafe to keep the road which passes close to the village, and we 

 struck across the fields to the left under a range of hills, bounding the 

 cultivated flat of Maghram on the southward. Two miles from the 

 Tidya-chu, brought us to another ravine with a small stream coming 

 from the south-westward, and entering the Tidya-chu a little above 

 Maghram. Tashikang, is a hamlet on the west bank of the confluence. 

 Three or four miles up the ravine we came to Pala, a Bung, in which I 

 observed a good collection of cattle and a few shepherds' tents, &c. 

 Here the ravine divided into two branches from the south and from the 

 west ; our road turned up the latter, called Ningri, where a mile further 

 on we halted at 3-40 a. m. 8th October, and being now close to the 

 foot of the pass we bivouacked till morning. 



This night I had fortified myself with an extra Chapkan and Paijama, 

 which with the excitement of the stolen march through the thick of the 

 " Chinese Tartars,'" had kept me warm and comfortable enough : the 

 first time I may say since leaving Kiinti, that I had felt any thing of 

 the sort at night. The worst inconvenience I experienced this night was 

 the difficulty of opening my watch to time distances, and of writing a 



* The Tibetan form of " Feringi." 



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