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number of cattle as formerly; but at prefent, ifamanby his indufiry raif- 

 es a fmall flock of goats, a Juari or a Darmi plunderer attacks him and 

 carries them off, and we can get no -Tedrefs from our prefent mailers, 

 nor are we ftrong enough to refill or make reprifals."' Independently 

 of the direel plunder they obtain,,, without any other caution than put- 

 ting a number of men under arms, the Judris are intereftcd in deftroy- 

 Ing the trade of the Niti Gkati,. in order that they may have a larger 

 proportion of the profitable traffic with the Undes K At night, the trier*- 

 mo meter was 58 ..\ 



September nth'— Thermometer 5-t 9 . March-at feven by the route 

 we came. At-3575 paces crofs afsmkhaQver the Dauli to the right bank. 

 The defcent from hence is very rapid,, aqd the ft ream is much broken 

 by vaft fragments of rock. and heaps of timber which have been much 

 accumulated fince our palling upwards, In one place . the river has 

 worked its way under a ktnd of arch formed of thefe materials At 

 6240 paces reach the village of Jhelim, now in, ruins with the exception 

 of two or three hbufes* A. villager fajd that fometim* ago Deb Sing.Hj 

 out ^uari acquaintance, fwept the country daring the fpacc of two 

 months, and carried of? .two thoufand, head of .goats, fheep and neat cat- 

 tie, without- receiving any molestation from the Gorkiahs, or being 

 compelled to make reftitutionpr any kipd of reparation,.. 



fiemher.. a-sth^KALT at Jhelim^ as our, loads did. not come la ft 

 night. : 



nember 13th.-— Thermometer 5,2°. March- at feven and half A. 

 M. j ; no tidings of the loads. The village of Jhelim is fituate on the face 

 of a hill considerably higher than the road from Laid to Malar i : de- 

 feendin-g therefore, we fell _ into, the old. road, .On, the road we were. 



