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generally over-run with lice; and their perfons are with few exceptions 



difguftingly filthy. The infidc of the houfe is no lefs filthy than the 



dreTs of the inhabitants ; and as no other articles of furniture are to be 



feen in them than benches and cooking utenfils, one might be led at full 



fight to' believe, that the inhabitants laboured un.der the preffure of the 



fevereftv poverty ; but this is not the cafe, as is fhewn by the ornaments 



of tfaz women ; and it is provable, that they avoid making a difplay of 



weaurvteft it mould be taken from them by the Gorkhiahs ; to which may 



foe added the circumftance of their inhabiting this country only from 



about the 24th of May till the 23d September, when they migrate to the 



villages of Tapobm, tftiragaon, and ptner places to the N. E. of jftftif- 



H oi h ' 

 Math. The fe people, from living half a year in one country and the 



remainder in another, are Called Ddbafds, arid alfo M arch as ; "which latter 

 appellation gives* a whimfical affinity in fituation and name to the for- 

 mer inhabitants of the borders of England, and Scotland. They carry 

 on a considerable trade between the inhabitants of the l/hdes and thofe 

 of the lower parts of the hills. From the former' they procure borax 

 and fait, which they either carry to the frontier of the Company's pof- 

 feffions or fell to the inhabitants of the hills; and take back to Butdn 

 grain in exchange. This commerce produces a profit to the Marchas 

 of at lead a hundred per cent on the grain, snd abouc^o or £00 on 

 the fait : but can only be carried on during the fix months of the year 

 when they refide on the Butdn frontier: and as they load g6ats and 

 (heep with the' merchandize, the fe feed- them Pelves wherever they flop; 

 and, as great flocks are driven by two or three people, the tranfport is 

 attended with little real coft to the Marchas. But the commerce'bf the 

 prefent day is faid to be a ni^re trifle in compirifon with the 'traffic of 

 former times. The goats ufid for this bu'finefs are of the breed of this 

 country, migrate regularly twice a year, are ffi3rt legged, of a ftrong 

 compatt form, and travel about 5 -cos a day over the mod rugged and 



difficult roads that can be imagined. 



