MA'MASAROVARA IN U'NDEfc. 



-penedby accident twelve months a^e, and their march to ButViant 

 p&wto j at the fame time; and, notwithstanding their promife, it was 

 underftood, that they would take up two days in this feftival; 



Otm encampment was on the flope of a hill iituate between the foot 

 of high mouldering mountains and the river Dauli not farther than a 

 mile in direct di (lance from NUL~— However, we had made a flart, and 

 *were m a better pofture for defence in cafe of any attack being made 

 upon us than at Nitt 9 for in front c f us there was a deep rivulet, on 

 our right looking towards N/ti whence only we had any thing to appre- 

 hend, was' the river Dauli, and, on the left flank, mountains which 

 could not be turned without immenie difficulty. 



25th, Rain fell during the night, and, as the cattle had been turn- 

 ed loofe to graze the preceding day, I refolvedtogo towards the rocks. 

 We had heard the call of birds which we took to be pheafants, I was 

 three hours in reaching the bafe of the line of rocks which feemed not 

 quite three miles from our encampment ; and though I climbed as 

 flowly as poffible, I was obliged to flop every five or fix paces to take 

 breath ; and the perfons who accompanied me were affe&ed in the 

 fame manner. In refpecl: to game my fearch was unfuccefsful, but! 

 ■met with many plants, amongft others were two kinds of rhubarb. ^-One 

 I took for the Rheum palmatum, the Other was much fmaller. I cut up 

 the roots of many large plants. The leaves in feveral inftances fprung 

 from a little found bark, which furrounded a large portion that was 

 rotten. Thofe, which were hard, were detached from the found part 

 of the bark near the furface of the ground ; but thefe (hrunk much in 

 drying, and had but little of the rhubarb tafle, colour, or fmell, whilft 

 the found fragments of the root of the preceding year were marbled , 

 like the cut furface of a nutmeg: fome were yellow, and had the 



