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faid, at Dobarké, which fhewed me they did not wholly 
depend upon the herbs of Waldubba for their fupport. . 
The women were-ftout and young, and did not feem, by 
their complexion, to have been long in the mortifications 
of Waldubba. I rather thought that they had the appear- 
ance of healthy mountaineers, and were; in all probability, 
part of: the provifions bought for the convent ; and, by the ° 
fample, one would think the monks had the firft choice of © 
the market, which was but fit, and is a .cuftom obferved . 
likewife in Catholic countries.. The men feemed very mi-- 
ferable, and ill-clothed, but had a great air of ferocity and ° 
pride in their faces... They are diftinguifhed only from the 
laity by a yellow. cowl, or cap, on their head. The cloth 
they wear round them is likewife yellow, but in: winter 
they wear {kins dyed of the fame colour. . 
On the 8th, at three quarters paft fix o’clock in the morn-:. 
ing, we left Dippebaha, and, at -feven, had two {mall villages - 
en our left ; one on thes, E. diftant two miles, the other on. 
the fouth, one-mile off. They: are called Wora, and fo is 
the territory for fome:fpace on each fide cf them:; :bur, . 
beyond the valley, all is Shahagaanah to the root of Lamal- 
mon. . At.a.quarter paft feven, the village of 'Gingerohha: _ 
was three miles on our right; and-we were now afcending - 
Lamalmon, through:a very narrow road, or rather path, for © 
it fearcely. was two feet wide any-where. It was a fpiral: 
winding up the fide of the mountain, always on the: very. 
brink of.a precipice. . Torrents of water, which in. winter car-- 
ry prodigious ftones down the-fidé.of this-:mountain, had-di- ~ 
vided this path into feveral places, and: opened:to.us a-view~ 
_ of that dreadful abyfs below, which few heads. can (mine - 
at leaft could not) bear to look down upon, We were here 
a2 : obliged . 
