$m ACCOUNT' OF A JOUENEY T© the Sources m the 



I© pafs the Yillage^ which, indeed, was a meafure ! meant to have adopted ^' 

 unaiked, and, therefore atonce agreed to. The pmdit^zUo reprefented ' 



From Chaprang 'o Gara is one month's joarney also, the-^road laying in a aortheriy direction aloogj 

 .si,,perfect grassy plaio, with many shawl goats and sbaep grasiag.otJ it j iliey are in abundance both st « 



Chaptang a.s,d Gara.,.^ BatwefSQ these i'^a placa&is sHuaJed Jhe dty -ot Tiilingj:,}\ifixi^h , which (h^-f- 

 sosd Ilea, and wliicU they describe aa krga, anci whei's a grand L4MA resides,, 



li has beca Uf!i7?r3*lly,f«wid, that thejiiill p«®pl.e csagge/ct*. .distances xwhem stating them i» c^Jj , 

 esjii lead ohs; tu suppose that their day's tnarches are very long ones, .when m fact Ihoy are exceeding, , 

 ly shor^ £K.d ihjs.frequeally happonSj from the escefdiugly difficult natose «if the country and roada.- 

 iliat lead aoross \i,^ ThiaSj E bftlie^e that, if aa. average of 5| miles be allowed for the day's journef ,- 

 m tbsge difficult roads, It wIlS be found fuliy equal to the truth 5 .this wo.uld make. the coarse of i\\n , 

 Jahnevi .bb.m\es^.zad tijcj ^llirectbn js probably from N= E. Q;) to N« E. 80. But,, as it turns much ; 

 10 a wiadiiig. channel, and ifes. road aacaads and descends, full one. third may be taken froiB that seen®, 

 and that j.s ereji toa Viti\@,. Thia \7oald placa tfee source about S7 miles to the N. E. 70 of Mhairam' * 

 ghati I and, fall© wiag^tfas, Bame reasoniaj, Uxe village C'ftoMwja^., may be double the distance fiirihs? ': 

 an the saaaa direction, takii^g a few mors mibs frona st, on aicoaut of ga-eaier escents acd deflexlona,. 

 thsQ aie to be caai Withia a riser's cour8s,-=>3ay ono third ; leavlag 77 miles further, ox 114 from 

 SairamghaiL Chaprar.g is said la be a»ioti\er- month*s' journey to tih'a N, '6 of ■which throtig-fe.,, 

 lisils, ©cjisal to aboat 33— 'less one. laird or 22, The r«st being op level ground, more Hiust ^fee alJovf=' 

 ed I bat, by laek owe account, they do not travel more, even on a plain j than 5 or 8 cos, whicii ' 

 ihey caU 8 miies^ Chapirang will tiiea ha found 215 miles to the north of €AowMfaft, and, by the ' 

 sajas reokoning., 6'ara will be240 miles ta the aorth ot Chaprang^ and about 506 nsile3 N, E.'U. SO." 

 or Iherecboiits, horn Bhairamghad, This is going on very uaceriaio data, but may, ■wiiholien 

 jfeffiar'ks an^ tobIss, conliibute a triiSs-to Ss.some peaaJs an am hitbsr^o.lillle known couutry,^. 



I ws£ ezceediugly aaxieas foob'ala any lafos-ji^atioft respecting ihe Seilej and it*'Sourcts, and paiiJ"* 

 ^t'lry particular attention to all they »ai'd reiating to tLat irii««r j -no one wsg permitted to spenk to, gx ' 

 Sook at them, and i myself paid" strict regard, that no «ja«t6tiou slacBid ba put of a natuie to sugget^i « 

 lo them what soii of answw was desired, and as every word tliiy said was spontaneous, I have sotti« • 

 (gfflafideBce Esj this additional -cvideace <o that river- coming fiom a coufiderable distaii(!« to the ensio * 

 ^ard, and behind iht Hifstaluffu rsoge* Ti^se-assUj iiowevi&r, coiild-BOtdisiinciiyBaywhere tfas'stiesisa '' . 

 ,^as derived isou^ -. 



Many questions wereputto- them rieiaiira to the!? SfianceTS-and CMstoms oq pecuUaroccasiohg.' Qi 

 jntrsisge, they tell, that the bridegrooDa bays bis wsCe at a gret»t expence, according to liis means, 

 and muich expenditure is made by his father ia tSie ceremony, the fatfeer of the bride only furnishtiig • 

 «hfi ornameats of the lady ; jt do«3 noi appear disilnetly that much is given to the Lamas or prjestsj • 

 on occasions of roarfiage, aa they do not ofiieiate or attend them, tven the sight of a woman being' 

 atfictly pTohibited theuio Marriage contracts are sntered iiato-at all ages,- from childhoodiUpwaids, biij v 

 ih'B wivss are laot carried away tiU thesgacf 5,5 or IS. .- 



Of theirdead, they say, that Ir their Yilk^e^ ifesy throw th'eir dead itit® Hi© rher| bat tfeis is entirely = 

 frota poverty, for any »ne who cam afford it, at ieaat partly burns tke body, and thei® -commits it is>-^ 

 Jae stream. AiChapran-g^ whe.n auy ma« of raek (-ufoy ^^ sirdar^^)'^\29y his. body is taken by persona 

 appointed for the purpose, a»d beat and poueded, bones and all together, and m;tde up into hallSj,.* 

 Vfhich ara thus given to be de?0BreiI by a very ki-ge species of kites^ which are. held very sacred, ami! ' 

 '■t-u kspt by tli8 Lamas s thej are fed regiaiarly by p-ersoDS (5g^dj,'s} ».gpp©jQie<i by iH- L&m&f aaa-* 



