MANASAROVARA IN UNDES. I 4 n 



mountains, and carrying a considerable body of water, due E. into the 

 Vault about a mile diflant. On the other fide of the river another 

 water-courfe coming from the E. by S* empties itfelf into the great 

 dream. 



We had been obliged to comply with the extravagant terms of the 

 Niti people at the rate of fourteen Timdjhds * for every load, and a bul- 

 lock was^rated at two loads, that is twenty- five! Tim Jjhasrvic wifhed, that 

 there mould be a dated weight : but this they would not comply with, 

 and a cow was entered as being equal to a bullock. This proved un- 

 ufed to carry burthens, as fhe three times threw off her load ; at length 

 difengaging herfelf from what fhe carried; fhe ran away, and I was ob- 

 liged to difmount and put her load on my bullock. The Niti people 

 had propofed to carry flour for us to Dabd at a moderate price on 

 goats, but we could not bring them to fpecific terms before we darted, 

 and were obliged to keep this matter open, notwithdanding this ren- 

 ders us ftill more liable to be impaled upon. ! To*day they infilled 

 that three goats were equal to the hire of one man; and although this 

 rate is higher than the abfolute value of the goats, we were obliged to 

 Xubmit to the impofition. At Niti our Bar eU rupees were current in 

 payment for five Timdjhds ; at this place the carriers will only confi- 

 der them equal to four; this circumftance explains one reafon of the 

 delay in fettling the rate of hire. 



jfune 30th. — Thermometer. 46* at fun-rife. It has rained great 

 part of the night, and the fummits of the neighbouring mountains are 

 fprinkled with fnow. Yefterday the firfl part of our march was through 

 a narrow gulley giving courfe to the Dauli, the bed of which was 



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' * The filvcr coin! oi S&nagar zn<l Lo/aib; which -mould weigh, »* the rum* import*, ihrcc mojbat) 

 the fourth part of a mpee, but the prefent currency has been much debafed. 



