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Our. interview was very long; but it was eafy to fee that the impref- 

 fionofour being either Gorkhas or Felings, (fo the Tatars call Euro* 

 beans) wore off either by the reprefentations of the .Deb a. of Ddbd, or 

 by the weight of our prefents. Particular inquiry was made for pearls, 

 and cups of cry ftal. Round the Debas neck was a firing of beads, 

 thick in the middle, and fqueezed in at the ends ; each bead about an 

 Inch and a half long, of a black fubflance refembling elaflic gum, and 

 marked with a deep circular impreffion made by a kind of feal. At 

 the bottom was a fmall oblong, rounded gold box, with a little tur- 

 quoife (lone in the middle of the lid. In each ear he had a long pen- 

 dant, confiding of a large pearl, between rows of fmall turquoife {tones 

 fet in gold. All the three- perfons mentioned had on their tail, which 

 is twilled from three plaits, a gold circular ornament in lieu of a ro° 

 fette. This is generally larger than a crown piece, half an inch thick s 

 with a railed edge defended by very beautiful hllagree work enriched 

 with fome decoration of the turquoife. This is really an elegant trifle, 

 and with the exception of a dagger cafe, and an etui for long iron 

 flicks to clean the throat of their tobacco pipes, was the only real deco- 

 ration betokening tafie, I have feen in the country. 



July 18th. — This morning we difplayed our goods as detailed in our 

 inventory. After we returned, a Cajhmirian Vakil from the Raja of 

 Latdk fent word, that he was ready So buy our goods, if the D'cba did 

 not clofe with cur terms. He faid, that he fhould be glad to open a 

 commerce, with Hinduflan for goods of that country in exchange for the 

 productions of Latak. That place, he faid was about fixty kos or ten 

 days journey from Ghertope, and the fame diftance from Cafhmir. He 

 mentioned a place called Bufneer, twenty days journey from Latdk, and 

 ten only from Bokhara. The road through Cabul, from Dehli to 

 Bokhara, he reprefented as very circuitous. From Amritfir to Latak 



