Journal in the Bub-Himalaya. 549 



sized village, and we saw several other similar ones in the neighbour- 

 hood. Soon after reaching the tents, the clouds collected on the 

 hills around, which are greatly higher than ourselves, the tops 

 being thickly covered with snow, and we soon had some light rain, 

 which increased towards evening. Thermometer at 4 p.m. 55°. 

 The weather cleared up in the forenoon, and the villagers, on ac- 

 count of some festival, decked with rhododendron flowers, the tops 

 of several Kellyon trees, of which the branches and bark, except near 

 the head, were cut off. These were placed erect near some of the 

 houses by ropes, also decked with flowers, and a very tall one was 

 planted in front of the temple of Bheema Kalee, in whose honour the 

 festival, I believe, is kept. In the afternoon the clouds again col- 

 lected, and rising in thick masses from the bed of the Sutledge 

 below us, spread themselves over the mountains on which we were. 

 The snowy mountains opposite were also covered with thick clouds, 

 and we had constant showers of rain as each cloud passed over us. 



\Ath. Tranda — 4 coss. Height 7,089 feet. Thermometer at 7 

 a.m. 51° ; at 10 a.m. 58£°. This was a short march. Before reaching 

 Tranda, there is a fine grove of large Kellyons, one which was above 

 twenty-five feet in girth. These trees, when old, appear to lose their 

 fine tapering tops, having usually a row of branches spread out at the 

 very summit, flat like a table : close to the village is a large grove of 

 pear trees. They were in blossom : the villagers said that the fruit 

 did not grow large, and became of a blackish colour when perfectly 

 ripe. They dry it and grind it into a flour, which they eat mixed 

 up with water. They say they are badly off for flour, and supplied 

 us with difficulty. We are now in the district called " Uthara bees," 

 the language is the Milshan, which is also the language of the oppo- 

 site side of the river, called the "Pundruh bees," and prevails 

 throughout Kunawur. 



In one place the earth had given way above the road, above a stream ; 

 and had precipitated itself apparently the day before into the 

 torrent, leaving a large cavity. The road was lined with fruit trees, 

 wild peaches, apricots, pears, and a tree they call Syngool, with blos- 

 soms like the pear, but the leaves very different : approaching Soongra, 

 there is a curious and large Kellyon tree, near a Chinese-looking 

 temple, which after rising in one high stem a few yards, separates into 



