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hiring cattle to enable us to carry our wool to MM. This latter they 

 prornifed to do without delay. I exchanged a knife vv.th the Wazir 

 for a curved horn fnuif box Aft;r a lilting of two hours, during 

 which a pi ite of raifi. ns was placed before us, we took leave and Slide 

 a vifit to the Lani. Ths old man was apparently much pleated to fee 

 us and had tea prepared, of which according to our Hindu character 

 we could not partake. Mr. H. brought as much orange cloth as 

 would make him a dfefs, but this he refilled, faying the weight of the 

 obligation would be too great, it being out of his power to make a 

 iuitable return for fuch civility. I found that a knife and pair oH 

 fciffais would be acceptable to him, and I Tent for them. He was 

 mo ft highly gratified by this token of regard, and gave us fome flips of 

 gduze fent to him by the DJba Lama, along with fome red comfi'-s 

 made of flour, water, and fame red colouring matter ; they were infipid, 

 but having been made by the holy hands of the head of the church 

 of this country, were faid to p off- is 'extraordinary virtues, provided 

 they were eaten before any other thing in the morning. Thefeproper- 

 ties lay in a very fm'all fpace; for the comfits were no bigger than 

 partridge fhot. Being d. Urdus' of bringing a fpecimen. of the Unia writ- 

 ing, fome of which had appeared to me very neat, I requefted, that he 

 would give me a written paper, as alfo one that had beea printed. In 

 compliance with my defire he gave me three Hips of blue paper, on. 

 which fome prayers were written in letters of gold by a Gclum lately 

 dead; and with his own hand he (Iru.ek oif.irom a wooden block another 

 prayer on a piece of coarTe Litbarux paper. In the latter, having placed 

 a few grains of Awa-jau, he blefled it, and wrapping it round with an 

 orange coloured (ilk thread drawn out of an open Huff with laofe tnJs 

 apparently for this purpble, he recomaunded us to hang it m a parti- 

 cu.lar- direction, and we ihould findnt in fome refpects ufeful to us. 

 He caufcrj fome tea leaves in a mafs to be brought to us, along with a. 



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