MAHASAROVARA JN UN-DES. -383 



provifions. At 'Tapoban, a ftout young fellow offered him felf to be 

 my flave for life if I would only feed him. Although I wanted 

 not his fervices, and did not much like his appearance, yet his 

 appeal was too forcible to be refitted j and j I therefore engaged to 

 give him food for his fervices. 



30th. Obliged to halt for the purpofe of collecting carriers % which 

 was difficult, as the villages in this part of the country are fmall and 

 diilant from each other, 



31 (r. As this day my companion and my felf; feparated, and he 

 had along with him the compafs, and the young Pandit who mea- 

 fured the road, I fhall make extra6ts from his notes of the route, 

 and afterwards notice my deviation from if* * At 1381 paces; Tops 

 •of mountains covered with fnow in every direction. At 2297, 



* crofs a: rivulet which comes from • E. — Snowy mountains in that 

 ' direction quite clofe. At 2437, commence afcending the moft 



* tremendous place I ever faw. At 2783, defcend to bed of Dauli 



* river, most thankful that I am once more fafe — was obliged to take off 



* fhoes and ftockings. At 7610, reach our halting place. Ten hours upon 



* the march. The coolies moftly women arrived at the fame time. The 



* Dauli much reduced in breadth ; but the curren veiy ftrong : with a 



* fmall exception, its general courfe has been to the S. W.' 



I left our ground at 40 minutes paft 5. — From the bridges acrofs the 

 Dauli, having been fwept away laft year, and not reinftated, a new road 

 has been made by the goat-herds along the fides and over the tops of the 

 mountains which overlook the river. This has been firft worked into 

 a track by the goats, and in the worfl places flrengthen?d by fragments 

 of (tones thrown in heaps fomewhat imitating rude flights of iteps. The 



