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birds, but out of shot : they told us on other days they had seen twenty 

 together. The villagers showed a very frank and friendly disposition 

 towards us. One was a remarkably handsome, tall, and well made 

 young man : the people we have as yet seen have nothing of the 

 Tartar countenance : their features are not so regular as those of the 

 Hindoostanees, and in person they are shorter and stouter. 



The country here is less fertile than that we have as yet seen ; the 

 crops are thinner, and not so much advanced, the ear being far from 

 full. Thermometer at sunset 67°. 



I saw some little sheds at short distances from one another over 

 a little stream : within each was some grass spread, and a small hole 

 made behind. To these places the women bring their children 

 whom they lay on the grass, conducting the rill on the top of their 

 heads, the water falls then into the hole, and is conducted to 

 another shed underneath. This operation is performed for the pur- 

 pose of cooling the children and putting them to sleep in hot wea- 

 ther, which latter result, I understand, it effectually produces. Saw 

 the first red thistle : found and shot three woodcocks in some willows 

 and marshy ground near the bed of a rivulet. Left the dominions of 

 the Rajah of Nahun, and entered those of the Thakoor of Barsun. 



28th. Synje — 7 coss. Thermometer at sunrise 46°. Saw some deer, 

 called Gholes, of a dark red-brown, at a great distance. They ap- 

 peared darker and larger than the Kakhur. These animals generally 

 frequent the highest and steepest hills on the banks of a river. 

 These when fired at, dashed over the Girree, on the banks of which we 

 again found ourselves. Saw some black partridges. Breakfasted at four 

 coss : passed through the village of Baruk, where is a very ancient 

 temple, dedicated to Suda Shiva. The form was the same as that of 

 the temples in the plains, with the addition of a wooden roof. Cross- 

 ed a stream a little above its confluence with the Girree, and soon 

 after forded the latter at the foot of the hill on which stands the 

 village of Synje. Thermometer in tent at 4 p.m. 71° ; at sunset 67°. 

 This is the residence of the Ranah of Theog. His is a large house, 

 but the rest of the village is miserable. We discovered we were 

 within three coss of Theog, which is on the high road to Koteghur, 

 and that some inhabitants of this part of the country who were with 

 us, and wished us to go by Koteghur, knew nothing of the road. 





