4 §| A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



fm4.ll piece of foda, which is in this country always employed to extrad 

 more of the colouring matter and flavour of the tea than would be done 

 foy the water alone which is here hard. A cheefe made of meal and 

 milk flightly daubed over with coarfe fugar, and having a few raifins . 

 ftuck in it, with a cake of a Iweetmeat made of fugar and butter, and a 

 large plate of raifins, .formed his prefent. The cheefe had a very ftrong 

 fmell, and as well as the tea and fweetmeat was given to our fervantv 

 The old man finding, that we would not take, back the cloth, requcfted 

 that it might be given him the following day in the pre fence of the 

 Gelums. The more we have feen of this pried the more we are pleafed 

 with the fsmplicity of his manners and the liberality of his fentiments, as 

 far as the nupidity of our interpreter would give us to underftand his 

 converfation. 



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 In the evening we were defired again to vifit the Wazir.and. Deba. 

 They were engaged in writing to the Garpan\ and we requeued, that 

 a letter, in general terms, informing him of our fafe arrival, and ex- 

 prefiiog our thanks for his attentions, might be tranfmitted to him in 

 our name; which was done. It was promifed, that on the following 

 morning fome cattle fhould be brought, that we might felecl two for 

 our own riding, at the rate of fifteen rupees nominal per head, and that 

 others fhould be furniihed to carry our wool and baggage Two trays 

 containing rice with a lump of butter fecurcd in a piece of the fkin of a 

 yak with the hair on, were put before us as a prefent, along with a plate 

 of raifins; and a written order figned by the Wazir and Deba for five 

 goats was directed to be given to the fteward, who would on receiving 

 it immediately forward- the animals. Thermometer 55 in the evening. 

 At night the WazirTent an agate fnuSF box, in exchange for that of 

 horn. After I had the latter in my pofTeffion, I obferved a fmall ring of 

 gold., by means of which the bottom w&$ capable of being taken out irx 



