S03 COURSE AND LEVELS' 



tion to see before us a good road, on which we might use the ponies we 

 had brought with us. We reached Kanam by dark, in a heavy fall of snow r 

 which had gradually increased from the pass : our followers did not come 

 up till late at night. The distance was thirteen miles and a quarter. 



From Kanam to Jangi was a distance of ten miles* The road good to 

 the commencement of the descent to the Changti nala, which is certainly 

 equal in danger and difficulty, to any thing we had met with. A mile of 

 most steep and rugged descent, in which the nakedness of a rocky scarp 

 was ill exchanged for a hard and slippery gravel, was finished by a regular 

 flight of steps, that led into the bed of the nala. We crossed it on a 

 sanga, not a little pleased we had left behind us this frightful precipice. 

 There are two villages, Osarang and Lipta, higher up this glen, and a road 

 leads by the latter from Kanam by which this last dangerous and difficult 

 descent is avoided : from the Changti nala to Jangi, is easy and moderate 

 ascent ; the people of this village trade with Pateala and Ladak ; from the 

 former place they import indigo, sal-ammoniac, baftas and spices ; from 

 the latter saffron which they call kesari; ingots of silver, and palhis or 

 timashis of which eight make a sicca rupee. Wool they receive from Garu ? 

 and salt from Hangarang and Gam. 



From Jangi our next march was Rarang, a distance of nine miles ; the 

 whole of the way a good path with very little descent or ascent. We had 

 now got back to the region of forest, and the noble pines through which 

 our route lay, at once gave the scenery its principal charm, and afforded us 

 the real advantage of shade. We passed the confluence of the Tedung, a 

 river before noticed as crossed on the way up. We now learned there was 

 a road up its bed leading to Bekar, and a small hamlet on one of its banks, 

 a day's journey from the Setlej. We passed Rispa also, and Reiba; in the 

 latter, admiring the display of grapes laid out to dry, and with which every 

 house in the village was covered ; at Rarang we found the Neoza in great 

 quantities, and of an excellent flavour; the price was ten seers for the rupee. 

 Walnuts also we found veiy good, but they had been brought from Pangi. 



