S9 6 ' A JOURNEY TO LAKE. • 



The principal articles of the food of the mod wealthy confiil in the 

 morning of boiled rice and goats flefh, and at night of cakes made of wheat 

 flour beaten with water and feafoned .-with fait and clarified- butter ; 

 as alfo of curds and freihiiriilk of fheep and goats. But wheat flour is 

 fcarcely ever tailed by the poor, who live upon, the coarfefl andj mod 

 common kinds of grain ; and, when they can get it, eat flefh raw as has 

 been before obferved. Wheat is not raifed in this diftri6r., but grows 

 to a good height near Jqjhi-Maih. The following grains are raifed 

 here: 



--, | b ...:': [O ■'.-..":; HO 



lit. Chua or Marcha; refembling the ^maranthus Gangeticus, or 

 Lai Sag of the Hindus; uled here both fvelh, anal in its feed when 



reduced to flour. . . ., 



pxI5 ' > hurl gnrvil rrjoit .. /.■■..-. 



2d. Manrua or Manrwq : Cynpfuru? Coracanus. 

 id. Phaphei -—This looks a little like French wheat, 

 4th. Coarfe red rice. ~ « 



5th. Ana Jau.—I have not feen this growing, but the grain unffoelied 



looks like barley . Shelled, like a poor kind oi wheat. 



_6th. Barley, m _ ■ , . 



, v^th. Chani or Chena. Panicum Miliaceum. oJ 

 T 8th. K-angne. Panicum Italicum. 

 9th, , Japgpra, ■ ,. . 



Slaves are much employed; and are bought from, the Gvykhiahs* 

 In the evening my fakir harcarah, with a real fakir, arrived with inr 

 telligence, that one of the women carriers, who had followed the cir- 

 cuitous track I had taken on, the. 31ft, being much fatigued, went 

 to the river to drink, and placed herfelf on ; a large flone, which flip- 

 ping, caufed her to fall into the water. The rapidity of the current 

 was fuch as -to hurry her out of her depth and fhe was drowned. This 

 matter affected me considerably. Qn. inquiry I found fhe was without 

 a family. 



