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to enquire the determination of the Government upon our affairs, and 

 was informed that in the following morning the letter fhould be 

 read to us, 



July gth. Rained —Thermometer at fun-rife 50 . Ft being, pafi 

 eleven, and not hearing- any intimation of our prefence being defired, 

 I proceeded to the Government houfa, and found the Council fitting, 

 afiifted by a number of people whom I had not feen before. I addrefled 

 my felf to the Council -, and as we had been informed, that a letter had 

 arrived from Ghertope, I begged to learn the fentiments of the Governor 

 ■in refpc-cl to us, and their final determination upon them, The Wazfr 

 faid, in reply, that the Governor of- Ghertope had fignified to him, that 

 intelligence had been conveyed to him about three years ago, that fame 

 Europeans were about to come into the country; and, whether we were 

 the perfons alluded to or not, he wimed to fee us, and the goods we had 

 brought, of which he requeued an exacl: inventory to be forwarded 

 to him, and prohibited any f«*le till he jfcould have infpefifced them. I 

 told them, that, although we had fuffered much from delays, yet that 

 out of refped; for the authority of Government, we were ready to go 

 to Ghertope or even to Lajfa, fhould it be required of us, as we had no 

 other than hone It intentions ; but as we were ordered to go by the Go- 

 vernment, it was but reafonable, that we mould be furnifhed with 

 carriages. After much altercation, it was agreed, that cattle were to 

 be ready in three days ; and that as many as could be procured fhould 

 be purchafed, we taking the refponfibility of the meafure uponour- 

 fclves. In an hour, the interpreter came to fay that we fhould have the 

 requifite bullocks, and we are to ftart in three days from this date. 



In the evening we went to fee the temple of Narayan again, and to 

 pay our parting vifit to the Lama, We found the old man in a fm; 



