^26 ^ SURVEY OF THE GANGES. 



computed at fourteen or fifteen hundred people,, who appear to be of a^ 

 diSerent race from the other mountaineers of GenvdL They are above 

 the middling size, stout, well, formed,, and; their countenanceis partake 

 ipore of tlie features of the Tartars or' Biltids, imm wham they 'ar.e most 

 pjfobably descended. ' They have broad faces, small eyes, and complex^- 

 ions of a light olive colour,, / b:i ■; ;'m-j^:.;J rl io-Zi '^'r^^b 10 



As soon as we entered the town, all the inhabitants came out, to wel- 

 come us; and we observed a greater display of female and juvenile beau- 

 ty, than we recoliect to have seen in any Indian village. 



The women were,jn general, handsome, and had a ruddiness in their 

 complexions^,, of which the children partook in a very great degree; 

 many of them approaching to the fioridne^s of the Europ^e an. The dress 

 of the two sexes differs little from each .other; that of the men consists 

 sn apair of trowers, made of Cammal, or Panc'hi, with a loose sleeved 

 jacket, of the same clothi reaching down to the knee, and bound rounds 

 the waist, with a woollen cord,. On their heads they wore a round cap^ 

 with, flaps, turned up behind and, in front, with a cloth, edging of a differ- 

 ent colgur. The women,, instead of trowsers, wear a wrapper, in the 

 form of a petticoat ;: the upper garment is nearly the same with that of the 

 men ; but rather finer in texture, and of different colours, of which red 

 appeared the favorite and predominant. Some of them wear small coni- 

 cal caps, others have a piece of cloth round the head, in the shape of a 

 turban. Their necks, ears, and noses were covered with a profusion: 

 of rings, various ornaments of beads, with trinkets in gold and silver, 

 little adapted to their appearance, or to the coarseness of the rest of their 

 apparel. Some of the children were actually tottering under the weight 

 of these costly burthens ; bearing, on their necks and arras, silver neck- 



