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Latdk -without'" the J dire& permiffiofr ofthe Raja. We fir ft fuppofed, 

 that the Cajhmt ri&nk ' Came to Undip for ; part of the wool they ufed ; 

 and learning that they did not, v/erediTpofed to blame them for want 

 of enterprife. '■ However it appears 1 tliatthcy have not been.' permitted 

 to ' trade dire&ly with- Unties h r f" the Latdkis.—h 'ffate of warfare 6M 

 long cxiitcd with intervening periods of peace, Or rather truce between 

 thefe two Hates fnthe reign of Mahmud Shah, The Chinefe Tatars 

 then invaded LaUk, -whole inhabitants -applied to the Cafhmirians for &\Y\{- 

 tatite. Thefe reprefehtedtheir :i MtG ( i6 the [ £' : mperor 3 : -who ordered them 

 to fend lbme infantry to their alrl; x By their help '.trie Latdkh re : pulfed 

 the aiTailants ;. and a treaty Of amity was nlade' between the c^rrnfHirrgj 

 parties, of which one article was that the (haw! Wool rai fed in Uncles 

 fhould be fold to the Latakis alone. This has fince ■'been little infringed 

 uppn* except two years ago, when the Jouari Marchas purchafed a 



fruall quantity on account of Mr. ~Gillman or Earaiy. ^'The-" Latdk is 



ni iffl) if.-,- : : "'v% :i ■ ■' JsHi jTpfSfitsrio b rftiw bov£>B .■,. , ■ 

 apprifed of the tranfaction, complained to the government or Ghertope, 



wfip lffued trie rigorous edict before mentioned,- forbidding 5 the Tale of 



any except to the Latak/s, on pain of death to the party felling. 



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2$d. —Leave Ghertope ; thermometer ^8° at fun- rife. The night has 

 been irony. "Having taken leave of the 'Deb a, or Garfdn in the after- ' 

 noon, and of the Waziir at' night, we preparecl to flirt; The Wazi'r 

 treated us with much cordiality. He faid that in a very fhort time he 

 ili o ill d go to Lajja to remain. In his apartment, which was a' much 

 better one than that of the Deba, were many trunks, and in the right 

 band angle was a fmall platform with benches in front, on the tot> of" 

 which was a brafs image, before which a lamp was burning, and grain of 

 various kinds was ferved onfalvers of wood. — On the lowed flep were 

 feveral plain wine glafles reverfea 1 , which from their clumfinefs, I fup- ' 

 pofed, to be of Ruffian manufacture. He (hewed us the picture ofthe 



