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welcome reception to any one, black or white, introduced by his friend 

 Bhauna ; and this I know is the feeling of many of the respectable 

 natives of Gnari. At the time of our visit Pruang Zungpan was for- 

 tunately away from Takla-khar, attending on the Garpun, or Ship-chet, 

 or Garpun, lately arrived from Lhassa, and then encamped at Barka : 

 and this explains the report we had from the shepherds of Chujia Tal 

 on the 2nd instant. I have not been able to ascertain precisely, who 

 these dignitaries from Lhassa were : according to Bhauna, (who is by 

 no means accurate,) there was a Garpun, an officer of higher rank than 

 the Garpun, accompanied by one " Charon." From Jwari Bhotias, 

 (who are better authority,) I afterwards learned that before they had 

 left Gartokh (end of September) " Charon," the same that was Chap- 

 rang Zungpun from 1843 to 1845, had arrived from Lhassa, in the 

 capacity of " Ship-chet," a sort of Special Commissioner, deputed to 

 investigate and administer the affairs of the province, on this occasion 

 more particularly to remove from his office for certain previous offences 

 in a former situation, the senior Garpun, Dhinkar-sah, whose successor, 

 Tannakar Gajjun, had not arrived when the Jwaris left Gartokh ; per- 

 haps he was now one of the party at Barka. 



With some hesitation, after Bhauna hinted at the extreme probabi- 

 lity of Angdah being appointed Tokdar of Tidyah on a salary of 50 Rs. 

 per month when the English took possession of Pruang, the Makhpan 

 directed his son Angil to write down some items of information which 

 I had commissioned Bhauna to bring from Pruang : Bhauna being 

 illiterate in the Tibetan language though proficient in the dialect of 

 Gnari colloquially, interlined Angil' s notes with a transcript of the 

 Hunia words in Hindee characters, the result of which document I 

 shall give at the end of my journal, much augmented and corrected by 

 other information derived from the most reliable of the Jwari Bhotias. 



Garjia Ghat, 22nd Oct. — The valley of the Kali between Dharchu- 

 la and this, which on my way up — 11th to 13th September, was pesti- 

 lentially hot, has now got cool and pleasant, but I doubt its salubrity 

 yet ; the little Quinine I had with me was not a tenth part of what 

 was required by the Fever and Ague patients who crowded round me 

 from every inhabited place this side of Kela. 



The Rajbari Karinda (agent) caught two of the Ban-mdnus, the wild 

 men of Chipula, for my inspection. I saw nothing very remarkable 



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