4$ A JOURNEY TO LAM' 



yaks arrived laden with fhawl wool and accompanied by two perfons on 

 horfeback — one of thefe was an officer called a Ntrba, who had receiv- 

 ed orders front the Garpan to fupply the quantity for which we had 

 jnade advances. The morning was hot, a circumdancc in our favour 

 as the fellers of wool are in the habit of wetting it under an idea as they 

 pretend of its twitting the clofer, but more probably to make it weigh 

 heavier. However, after a little delay on our part, that the wool might 

 dry as foon as poflible, we had it weighed by a pole with a weight, on 

 the principle of the fteel yard, which the Garpan had fent with us. As 

 more was brought than we advanced for, we agreed to take it, on the 

 principle of encouraging the Garpan to give more ^nother year. 

 The fiirplus amounted to 83 rupees and i Timajha ;■ and the Gar* 

 fan had ordered rupees klofe to be received, which fhewed that hie 

 had given dire'dltbns for riiore to. be brought than we had contracted 

 for; 'in order tB tr^ Whether we really meant to purchafe, or u fed 

 tfie"plea rherely in his prefence to mafk other defigns — at tfrs place we 

 found many Jouari and JDhdn merchants, who were troublefomeiy inqui- 

 sitive as to who we were, what could be bur motives for coming, and 

 why we purchased Ihawl wool. The fight of fome of our wares feem- 

 ed to convince them, that we were what we -appeared to be. I con* 

 fider this day as the epoch at which may be fixed the origin of a traf- 

 fic which is likely to be extremely beneficial to the Honorable Com- 

 pany. 



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isAr lias only one houfe made of bricks baked in the fun and 5 

 tent? of ^oat- herds: it is fituated upon a rifmg ground upon the left 

 fcanS: of a "'rapid ftreain forming one of the branches of the Sat&dr a 

 or Setlej. This ilream comes from 86.5 E, and runs down a valley 

 about 2| miles in breadth and near 8 in length, running S. W. After a 

 courfe of about § mile, it joins that which, we forded yefterday* 



