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The weather was now extremely pleasant ; the sun not too hot in the 

 middle of the day to take exercise. In the morning the thermometer at 

 this village was 31° 5". The grapes had fully ripened, and we had baskets 

 full offered to us at each village we passed through or halted at. 



We proceeded to Pangi, a distance of ten miles ; the path not so good 

 as the preceding day's, though still not bad ; six miles is of a mixed kind, 

 to a stream crossed on a sanga, in the bed of which lies the road formerly 

 noticed as leading from Kanam by Lipta and which crosses the Kasang 

 pass. From this place there is a steep ascent of about three-fourths of a mile, 

 through a deodar forest, in which we found a good deal of snow towards 

 the summit. We overtook here a number of the Hangarang people, pro- 

 ceeding heavily laden to the Rampur fair. The remainder of the road 

 was good and nearly level ; the proper name of this village, which contains 

 about thirteen families, is Thempi ; there are several others close to and the 

 whole collectively have the name of Pangi. We observed, over the door of 

 a temple here, the hide and horns of a curious animal, which had been kill- 

 ed in hunting and which these people called Skin. There were also skins 

 and horns of the War and Ther; they both go in herds ; the former is some- 

 thing like the musk deer, the face is however that of a sheep ; the hoofs are 

 divided ; the horns are more like those of a buffalo than any other animal. 

 The Ther is supposed to be the Chamois of the Alps ; it is called Sboo or 

 Zboo by the Kanaweris. The musk deer (male) they call Robz, (the fe- 

 male) Biz ; numbers of them are shot all over Kanawer, particularly in 

 this vicinity. 



Half-way, or rather a little more, we breakfasted at Chani, a middling 

 village opposite Barang nearly. We passed through Kashbir and left to- 

 wards the river side the several hamlets of Dun, Brehle, Yuaring, Sonan, 

 Kiiti, Kangi and Fehling. On this side of the river the declivities of the 

 mountains are more gradual, and inconsequence not so bare ; for this reason 

 also the villages are more numerous and the cultivation more extensive. 



