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joint Zungpim, which occasioned disturbances on the subsequent extor- 

 tions of his successor. 



2. Shungdub Lingbo, Urkiiwa, appointed in 1845-46 in succession 

 to Chakwa. This Shungdub, says Debu, has been to Calcutta via Ni- 

 pal or Lo (?) : he is well disposed towards us, and says that the repul- 

 sive attitude maintained by the Lhassan Government with regard to the 

 British in India is solely the effect of Chinese dictation at their 

 Court. 



Present Pruang Jungpun (succeeded Phundu this year) is Shak 

 Chumba ; said (by the man of Lamjung) to be a Khampa from some 

 place 20 days north of Lhassa, and (by the Byansis) to trouble him- 

 self very little with public business, leaving it as much as possible to 

 his Nirba. 



Daba Zungpun is Chep-Chungba, also appointed in 1845-46. The 

 Zung-Chungpun is the Government Mercantile Agent, a person of 

 rank and consequence, who comes every year from Lhassa to Gartokh, 

 and thence on to Ladak, before the war with the Sikh usurpers in that 

 quarter. The principal article of this state traffic is tea, mostly of the 

 coarsest sort made up in bricks : and this trash is disposed of by the 

 barbarous expedient of forced sale for double or treble its real value. 

 The whole quantity of tea to be inflicted on the province is made over 

 to the Garpun, who distribute it to the several Zungpun, and they again 

 to the heads of villages and Tals, who finally divide it equally among 

 the families, and payment is realized by the reverse process. 



The principal Gold Mines of Gnari (situated east or north-east of 

 Rudukh) are farmed to a Sar-pun (Sar, Gold) on triennial contract with 

 the Government at Lhassa. 



The Gnari Pungkag Chuksum, are thirteen chief districts of the pro- 

 vince under their own native hereditary chiefs (Pun) subject to the 

 Lhassan Governors : they are 



1. Dokachya, and 



2. Jimkangnonu, both in the Zung of Rudukh. 



3. Chumurthi, on the south bank of the Gartokh Indus, to the 

 extreme west of Gnari, on the Pitti frontier. (?) The best of the 

 ponies (some of them very good) imported into Kumaon by the Jwari 

 Bhotias, are bred in this district, and brought for sale to the Gartokh 

 fair, where the Jwaris buy them. 



