MANASAROVARA IN UNDeS. Sgr 



This evening the report ran, that a carrier had fallen off the fir II 

 Sankho in this day's march, into the river, with his load,: and was 



drowned. 



June -ad.— March at fix- with the fame coolies. In one place the 



river is* covered by maffes of rock* under which the current rufhes* 

 witrrgrcat violence. At 350-paiGes we crofs to the left bank of the river 

 over a Sankho, ..confiding of three, parts,. in confequenceof two blocks 

 of ftone, having fdllen- into the flream and formed three channels. It 

 was in good order and. thirty paces in length. At 4680 paces crofs a 

 broad large, brook, in which there are large beds of frozen i'now, with -a 

 a,ftream of water running beneath them ; and immediately on the right 

 bank.of which is the village oiMaldrL . 



Thp road of to-day has exhibited much" variety ; and a fliort account.' 

 of its features will convey a general idea of thofe of this country. 

 At firfl we paffed over heaps of fragments of rocks ; afterwards over 

 beds of pebbles; then afcended a mountain partly by a path worn in 

 the- earth by frequent treading, .and partly, formed hy the furfac.e of 

 rocks and by flairs; where the road on the face of the rock {helved much 

 to the river, a few loofe Hones -were laid upon it clofe to its edge ; and 

 fometimes earth was thrown amongft them, or a few pine branches were - 

 placed along it and loaded with ftones: this ferved as a kind of de- 

 fence or parapet: but, as they were never higher than a foot from the 

 level of the fhelf," they would only flop a flip of the foot. Where 

 niches were broken out of the rock in the line of the path, and form- 

 ed gaps over the precipice, if only of fmall extent^ a piece of wood 

 was laidacrofs the widefl part, and ilabs of fuch none as was at hand 

 laid from it to the rock, either fupported by a ledge, or if theface of 

 the rock chanced to be fmootb, on another fpar of woocL— Where the 



