^G i A JOURNEY TO LAKE; 



of which are wooden doors ■% arid others; are merely: caverns; of thefe? 

 fome ferve as houfes, bufo the ; greater part as /granaries or rooms- 

 in which the inhabitants depo fit their property, when they leave 

 their hoUifes in the town for a warmer fituation during the mod fevers, 

 feafori of the year, when the ravine ds nearly choked up wrthfnow,,' 

 fo ;th at Bdbd is only to be confidered as a fummer refidence. The 

 houfes are of (lone two (lories high, white warned on the outfide below, 

 forroundedi with a band of red and Frt.nch.grcy- above, and having terraced 

 roofs furrounded with parapet..- The tops of the walls are decorated 

 with lines of pieces of different Coloured rags tied to it rings. The infide 

 Is very filthy { the floors of littleyards, which lead to them, being co- 

 hered with bones of (beep and goats, fragments of bones, and locks of 

 wool. From the ground floor, which is railed, a wooden ladder leads 

 to the terrace, which in the Wazir's houfe is divided into an enclofed 

 ■verandah that fer-ves as a chamber of audience* and into an open fpacc 

 ufed as a promenade by all the family. The town is divided into three 

 parts, viz. a college, the refidence of the Lama and his Gclums, or monks? 

 a nunnery ; and the houfes of the Wazir y Deba, and the laity in general* 

 Immediately in the centre of a femi-circular fweep formed by the houfes> 

 are temples, or maufofea of Lamas, with fmaller ones attached to them> 

 Thefeare circular at their bafe, diminifh by fmaller circles and termi- 

 nate in a point covered by plates of copper, like umbrellas, and gilt 8 

 in the centre above the fe, fur rounded by horns, and painted of a red 

 colour, {land- an irregular building with one door, and furmountedby 

 a fquare fmaller building, tiled with brafs gilt and decorated with 

 groteffue figures; it is the temple of Ndrayan or the great; fpirifc. The 

 parapet of this building was adorned with mafles of bkek hair, formed^, 

 I believe,, of the tails of the Chouri cow reverfed, plaited a«d inter- 

 mixed with pieces of fome fhining fubftance x ai&d havtijg on their tops. 



