MANASARO'VARA IN U'NDES. M 



pre ffion in breathing, the moment I was dropping aflecp • and deep 

 fighing only proved a temporary relief At three o'clock the wind 

 became very violent, but abated m the morning a little before fun- rife. 

 Two Uniyas, going to Niti with fait, here met Amer Singh, and darted, 

 as he faid, many objections to our proceeding. He thought it prudent, 

 that they fhould return with us, left they might fpread fome report 

 that might be prejudicial to us. 



July ill. — Thermometer, at fun- rife %\\ march at 5, 35 A. M. 

 At 3205 paces reach the fummit where there is a heap of ftones. Here 

 we found the two Unjyas, one of whom was bulled in lighting a fire, 

 into which the other threw fome incenfe, which he had previoufly 

 bruifed on a stone. He then leifurely walked round the pile of (tones, 

 in the midft of which was a flatue having a piece of cloth tied to it, 

 grid whilft walking, uttered a long prayer. To the Eaft was the facred 

 mountain near the Like of Mdnfarovar, tipped with fnow, and called 

 Cailus or Mahadco kci Ling* Turning his face towards this mountain, 

 and after raifing his hands with the palms joined above his head, then 

 touching his forehead, he fuddenly placed them on the ground, and 

 going on his knees prefled his forehead to the ground. This raifing 

 the hands, and proftration of the body and head, was repeated [even 

 times; the other Uniya, lefs devout perhaps, contented himfelf with 

 three falutations and a fhort prayer. 



Came to a large plain divided into feveral portions by broad ravines, 

 and having feveral broad but not high hills on it. The only marks of 

 vegetation upon it arc lo v bufhes of the furze, which may be called 

 Tatarian, and fmall mounds of the compact mofs before mentioned, 

 with here and there a (mall tuft of a thin filky grafs jufl fpringing up. 



• '1 here arc two irountaini of thii latter name ; one near Gangatri; the other at Ca:Ids t 



