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beyond those places, except at the smail village of Durdéh, whick 
is now deserted.—Tuwarra, Suc’hr, and Jhala, are'very small and 
ruinous villages.—Reital is a pretty good village of about 25. houses, as 
is Salung, and there are 2 or 3 more in that neighbourhood.—I_ found 
the inhabitants civil and-obedient. 
Tu people of Rowaen are, m general, much inferior in appearance 
to those of Jubul and Sirmour, and the more western mountains; indeed, 
with few exceptions, they are an ugly race, beth men and women, and 
extremely dirty in their persons. They complain much of the incursions 
of the banditti from the western parts of Rowaen and Busahir, who 
carry off their sheep in the rains; but, from what I can learn, they 
in turn plunder their eastern neighbours of the Cédar-naé’h districts, and 
they pride themselves on the long journeys they make in their sheep 
stealing expeditions.—The proper time for those forays is the Jatter end 
of the rains, when the suow in the defiles is much reduced.—-The women 
dnave not here, as to the westward, a plurality of husbands. I saw no 
fire arms among the inhabitants, nor swords or war hatchets; their 
weapons are bows and arrews.—The climate of Rettal, is, at this season, 
very pleasant, and the price ef grain is not bigh, but it is not abundant, 
—The corn is cut in the beginning of June. 
Wo volcanos were seen or heard of in these mountains, whose com- 
position is granite of varicus kinds and colours.—No shells or animal 
remains were seen—The magnetic variation was small, and differing 
‘little, if at all, from what it is on the plains of the upper provinces it is 
