1848.] Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. 335 



18,942 feet of the map is undoubtedly a mistake, perhaps for 16,942. 

 The pass into Ralam of eastern Jwar by the Phula Yankti between 

 Sibu and Marcha of Darma, is difficult or dangerous and rarely tra- 

 versed. Ralam is a colony from Darma and the alliance is still main- 

 tained between the two (by intermarriage, &c), the Bhotias of Ra- 

 lam holding little intercourse with the rest of the Jwaris. Gyuc-Dhura, 

 from Sela of Darma, to Kunti of Byans, by the Pechko-Gankti, is 

 difficult but still traversed ; this year, one crossing the pass found the 

 bracelets and other remains of a Darma woman who eloped this way 

 some years ago and perished in the snow along with her abductor. 

 The Sobhula and Balch route into Munshari (traversed by Commis- 

 sioner Trail) is always easily passable in summer ; it can hardly be 

 called an inter-Himalayan pass, being below the south end of the 

 Paneh-Chula snowy range, and probably not much higher than Chipula, 

 13,500 feet, to which the Balch ridge adjoins on the south. Not a 

 single head of cattle, informants aver, is left in Darma except one or 

 two of this season's importation from Hundes, and many of the sheep 

 and goats have died of the same murrain : the village lands have been 

 thrown out of cultivation for want of cattle to plough. 



Kela is renowned for the excellence of its ghee, to which I can my- 

 self bear testimony, having swallowed a quantity of it in Bhauna's tea 

 when we were in Hundes. 



Thermometer at A\ p. m. 72°, boiled at 204° ; elevation 4750 feet : 

 the confluence of Dbauli (alias Gori, alias Darma Yankti), and Kali, 

 about 1000 feet below; Thermometer at sunset 69°. 



\9tk October. — Kela. — Thermometer at sunrise 58°. Patwari Dur- 

 ga-dutt takes his leave ; he is an excellent sort of person, deserving of 

 more Parwasti, than he has hitherto obtained. 



March to Relagarh. — Thermometer at 4\ p. m. 78°, boiled at 

 205|° ; Kali 300 feet below. Thermometer at sunset 68° : elevation of 

 confluence of the Relagarh with Kali river, trigonometrically (?) by 

 Webb, 3794 feet. 



20th October. — Relagarh. Thermometer at sunrise 57° ; marched 

 to Dharchula. Thermometer at 5 p. m. 69°, boiled at 207° ; elevation 

 2750 feet; Kali 150 feet below ; Thermometer at sunset 67°. 



2lst October. — Relagarh. Thermometer at sunrise 56° ; heavy dew; 

 march to Balwakot, very picturesque scenery all the way, through wild 



