336 Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan, fyc. [Sept. 



forest, along the course of the river, and climate now pleasant ; Ther- 

 mometer at 5 p. m. 67°, boiled at 208° ; elevation 2250 feet; Kali 

 close below; Thermometer at sunset 56°. 



Here I found the dirty Jogi, whom I had met at Askot on the 10th 

 September ; he grinned foolishly when I had told him what I had seen of 

 Kailas and Manasarowar, and then propounded his own ideas about the 

 lake and mountain, which were silly and superstitious. 



22d October. — Balwakot. Thermometer at sunrise 53° ; heavy dew. 



Bhauna (with Anand) made his appearance this morning. From 

 his delay I had apprehended that something had gone wrong with him 

 at Takla-khar, with reference to our illicit visit to Hundes ; but hap- 

 pily nothing of the sort occurred, his stay in Pruang being protracted 

 for his own pleasure, and some delay in collecting the money due to him 

 (from Deba Chakwa and others) on former transactions. Chakwa 

 himself is in Lhassa now, but has an agent still resident in Takla-khar. 

 Bhauna met the usual cordial reception from his old Mitr, and Aradh, 

 (trading-correspondent) Angdah the Tidya Makhpan, which was the 

 more good-natured as the Makhpan forthwith taxed Bhauna with his 

 contraband introduction of the Feting, and seemed well assured of the 

 fact, though stoutly denied by the offender. I suppose that his informa- 

 tion must have come from some of the Hunias at Ningri, whom I had 

 there allowed to stare at me without let, and these doubtless passed the 

 report on to Tidya ; subsequent notice from the Bang on the north of 

 Toiyon, where we were encamped on the afternoon of the 7th instant, 

 might have shown that we had come from the northward, and passed 

 through the middle of Pruang by night, Bhauna indeed finding the 

 ground safe, sufficiently owned the impeachment by propounding 

 excuses for the act in question, on the score of his necessary subjec- 

 tion to the orders of his English Masters. The Makhpan observed, 

 that as we had not been openly caught in the fact nothing further need 

 be said about it ; indeed as we had succeeded in effecting our passage 

 through his district, his own interest required absolute silence on the 

 subject, for if known to the Lhassan Governors their resentment would 

 attribute our success to the Makhpan' s negligence or connivance ; 

 and in their barbarous code, the admission of the meanest stranger into 

 the country, is high treason. If it were not for this fear of his tyran- 

 nical masters, old Angdah said that he would be most happy to give a 



