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night ; I was always too fast locked in sleep to attest this fact myself, 

 but I hud it from the best Bhotia authority, Hirdu Budha, Thokdar of 

 Chaudans. 



It is also observable that immediately over all the principal moun- 

 tain-torrents, a very strong wind blows in the direction of the current, 

 and in strength proportioned to the volume and rapidity of the stream ; 

 this I take to be a mere mechanical action of the moving water by which 

 it drags along with it the superjacent stream of air in contact with its 

 surface. On my way up here in the beginning of September, when dis- 

 tressed with the great heat of the lower vallies, I often experienced 

 much relief, by sitting on the banks of the streams or on the bridges, 

 in these cooling currents of air. 



Budhi, \2th October. — Maximum Thermometer in sun during the 

 afternoon 104°; at 2\ p. m. in shade 62°, boiled at 197°; elevation 

 8600 feet; the village is 150 feet higher, i. e. 8,759 feet ; Thermometer 

 at sunset 52°. 



Another party of Khampa Hunias, one of them a decent-looking 

 man, rather intelligent and understanding a few words of Hindustani, 

 gave me the following information. 



Four rivers rise from Gangri, according to Tibetan mythology, from 

 the mountain itself or the lakes ; in geographical fact (which informant 

 properly distinguished from the legend) from their vicinity nearer or 

 further, they are, 



1st. (The Indus) ; Sing-Chin (or Jing) Kamha (or Kampa) on 

 the northward, fabled to spring from the mouth of the Lion, (Sing ?) 



2nd. Lang-Chin Kamba on the westward (the Satrudra or 

 Sutluj) from the mouth of the Ox (Lang.) 



3rd. On the southward Mapchu Kamba (the Kamali) from the 

 Peacock (Mapchu.) 



4th. The Brahmaputra, to the eastward, Tamjyak Kamba, from 

 the Horse (Tarn ? or Tamjyak ?) 



In his exploration of the Sutluj in 1819, Herbert obtained the same 

 names for these four rivers, allowing for differences of corrupt pronun- 

 ciation by illiterate informants. (Asiatic Researches, 1825, Vol. XV. 

 Art. VI.) 



Chima Yungdung is the local name of the sandy ground in which the 

 last river rises : it is said to originate in springs. East of its source in 



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