432 A JOURNEY 'TO LAKE 



cell jufl large enough to allow of three people fitting down; with a, 

 raifed bench of brick, fronted by a railing of wood, with a little, door 

 in the centre. — Although earlv, he was retiring to reft or meditation ; 

 and considering the wealth of the college which is reported to be very- 

 great, was a real and edifying picture of humility. He wifhed to know 

 very particularly if we fhould return by Ddbd. We anfwered certain- 

 ly. He was much pleafed with our attention, and putting out his. hand 

 to take hold of my friend's white gown, he being a little nearer than 

 me, faid " 1 pray you let me live in your recollection as white as this 

 cloth." There was fomething particularly affecling in his manner and 

 utterance, and I could not help bending over his out-ftretched hand 

 with emotion, as I took leave of him. 



I mentioned, that there are a college and a nunnery. The Geiums 

 or monks feem a happy, good humoured fet of people, dirty, greafy 

 and in good eafe. They carry on a considerable trade in lheep's wool 

 and fait, in exchange for wheat and barley. Of the nature of the 

 inftitution, I could learn little. Of the Paraphernalia of the temple, the 

 refemblance with thofe of the Romijk church was very ftriking. The 

 Geiums obferve celibacy. There is a nunnery, the rules of which are 

 faid to be fevere. Commerce with man is puni{hed by folitary im« 

 prifonment and a heavy fine. 



July loth.—- Thermometer 48 ; this evening we purpofed to mount 

 a hill, on which formerly was a houfe belonging to the Raja-, and 

 there ftill remains a temple. , In our way, palling clofe to the houfe of 

 the Wazir we found him, the Dlba, and feveral fervants, (hooting at 

 a mark with bows and arrows. There was novelty in the contrivance 

 of the target. The bull's eye was compofed of two parts, the inner 

 ope about four inches in diameter, was of wood, convex, and pointed 



