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encamp at 5 P. M. At 7 P. M. thermometer 47 . This day we faw 

 swore wild horfcs than on any former one, alio feveral wild affes of the 

 kind, called Gurkhar, and like wife I believe fame mules. The affes, 

 are a little lefs than the horfes* Saw like wife Barals and many yaks. 



Augujt 3d. — Slight fro ft, thermometer 34°, March at 9* 50V At 

 7287 paces, crofs a ftream over a wooden jankhuo. At 7325 encamp on 

 a high fpot. This is Gangri or Dar chart. There are four houfes of uri- 

 burnt brick or [tones, and about twenty-eight tents^ amongd which that 

 of the fervant of the Latah agent is apparently the belt. Sixteen years 

 ago the old pundit fays this was a place of confequence. There we find 

 many Juari and Dhennu merchants with grain, and three tea merchants., 

 who fay they are acquainted with Pekin, which they call the capital of 

 Mahdchin : but they themfelves refide two months journey beyond 

 Pekin. The Tatars of the diftridls we have feen, wore their hair plaited : 

 thefe people had it cut all round, fo that it hung Io\y andloofe in their 

 necks, and th-ey wear coats of kid fkins made fioft by rubbing, and 

 the hair turned inwards. 



A cascade iffues from the rocks juft above JDarchan, and falls into 

 the Rdwanhr ad, which is fupplied by the melting of the fnow on the 

 great mountains at the foot of which it is fituated. It is faid to fur- 

 round a considerable extent of mountains, infukting them completely 5 

 but this, being the relation of natives, h to be received with caution. 



Augufl 4th— Thermometer at ^ h A. M 57 We were refolved to (by 

 here to-day to recruit my (Irength, which flood much in need of it 



after frequent attacks of illnefs. 



Awgujl £$, —Thermometer 48 s ; Leave Darchan or Gangri at io h 



