480 SURVEY OF THE GANGES. 



saw a great variety of beautiful larkspurs of different colours, and the 

 banks of the rivulet are prettily ornamented with hawthorn bushes in full 

 blossom, 



28th. Thermometer 50**. The arrangements which had been made 

 for getting our supplies at Retail or at this place, obliged us to halt here 

 to-day. Agreeably to the Subaddr's promise, we found a sufficient 

 stock of provisions for our people ; but it was requisite also to settle what 

 part of our baggage could accompany us, and to leave every article that 

 was not in a portable shape, in some place of security, until our return. 

 The accounts we received of the roads were of a nature the most discour- 

 aging; and the difficulties represented, far exceed any we have yet met 

 with; although we have passed many places, which, to a low-lander, ap- 

 peared really alarming. These situations the Pahdris traversed with the 

 greatest unconcern ; but the continuation of the route from hence is, even 

 in their ideas, fraught with danger. To a person who goes without a 

 load, and is in the habit of travelling in these mountainous regions, the 

 distance to Gangotn is calculated at three or four days journey ; but 

 we could not expect to reach it in less than six or seven days ; and to 

 Insure our attainment of it even in. that time, we should be under the 

 necessity of leaving our tents, Jampuans, and even our beds behind us. 

 Whatever inconvenience we might suffer by being deprived of these 

 necessaries, we determined not to relinquish the attempt, until we were 

 convinced by ocular demonstration, that the prosecution of our journey 

 would be impra(5ticable. 



In the room of the Jampuans, we were obliged to substitute what is 

 called a Da^/iiz', which is simply a pole with a blanket or small carpet 

 glung to it, in the form of a hammock. 



