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59 8 A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



built In a crefcent, but many of the houfes have been deferted and 

 ^unroofed 9 and now ferve 1 only, as night (table for cattle. 



We fent a meffage to the Sehdna- * importing that we mould be glad 

 to fee him. The meeting took place at our tent; and the Sehana, whofe 

 name was Arjun, began by. Hating that this was a road which pilgrims to 

 , Mdnfarowar feldom came • that wc were armed -, that we had many peo- 

 ple; that report faid we- were either -Go Mali s or Fir ingis come with 

 defigns inimical to the Undes; and that meafures had been taken ac- 

 cordingly.. We endeavoured to remove the fe unfavorable impreffioos ; 

 ■and after much converfation the old manTe erne d fatisfied. We wrote 

 M letter m.Hinduftdni to the De'ba- r , informing him that for pious and 

 ^humane p-urpofes we wiihed to vifit the lake of Mdnfarowar ; that for 

 ^defraying 'our expenfes we had brought certain articles from our 

 country; Ion fak; that /we had fqr our own defence certain arms which 

 we werCi. willing to leave in his keeping during our (lay in the Undes. 

 On urging to the Sehdna the neceffity of our fpeedy departure,.he ob- 

 ferved that the fnow was not yet fufficiently melted ; that the com- 

 .iHUfmcationr: was never attemptedsbefore the SancrJnt or entering of the 

 /fun: into the ;neM%n;^ happen in fifteen days; When 



"^ey'wdiOd accompany uSjiJh^ cafe; the anfwerof the Deba mould be 

 ■'favo«rabls to .out intentions.. The, argument of the road not being 

 ; open; was. falfined by the appearance of the Unias ; but it was thought 

 L beft "-to- wait an.anfwer, from, the Deba.*,, 



From the /jift' to the 9th, the. thermometer at fun^rife has been 



generally' at 46*, but in the .middle of the day about 72 . ' The nights 

 have commonly been dear anef fere ne, but there have been a few (light 

 ihowe'rs 1'of ram iri two x>& them. 3 About $ine it becomes pleafantly 



* Th? h?ad nun of a village, is called §hdna, Sebdnc 4 <<r Sejaiia* . 



