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into that jofl mentioned. Ghertope, formed by fame black tents, at a con- 

 siderable di fiance, bears from hence N, 5 E. The intervening plain 

 and indeed as far as the eye can reach until it is bounded by a pafs 

 to the N. W. is covered by prodigious bodies of fheep, goats, and 

 yaks, anlong (l which is a fmall number of horfes. The number 

 of cattle cannot I think be lefs than 40000. At 14000 paces reach the 

 town, or rather affemblage of tents in clufters, made of blankets fur- 

 rounded by hair ropes fixed to flakes. Over the tents are varioufly 

 col oti reel fhreds of filk and doth as flag 1 ?. 



We' had only juff pitched oar tents, and arranged, our baggage, when 

 a meilenger arrived from the Beba, and Wazir, de firing us to pay them 

 a vifit to d*y, and v/e Oiould proceed to bufinefs the following day ; 

 the terms of the 'meiTags 'were too prefliag to admit of delay, accor- 

 dingly we proceeded to the houfe of the Deb a, with our prefents. 

 It was enclofed by a fence about four feet high, and furrounded 

 by the fame litter of bones, horns, and fcraps of wool, that we had re- 

 marked at Ddbd» After entering an enclofure, we flopped a few fe» 

 conds at the clofe of a fm dt yard, in the front of which were fome 

 matchlocks and bows and arrows, piled in a kind of iguard houfe; and 

 we were defined to go through a low door into a room, about twenty feet 

 long. At the oppofice end, on a raifed bench of earth, covered with 

 a carpet and cufhions, fat an elderly man, bare-headed, and clothed in 

 a greafy yellow damafk gown. This was the De'ba. On the right 

 hand from the Deb a, was a dirk complexioned perfon, who was his 

 younger brother; and on his right again, a rather fair yjung mm, who 

 was the fon of the late Wazir t and now (hired the authority of go- 

 vernment with the D'eba* The Deba had rather a fhrewd countenance. 

 His brother had a fullen expreffion, and wis ill favoured. The young 

 Waz'ir had a pleafmg face, of the Tatar kind. We bad cofhioris pi iced 



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