|o| A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



march. The town of Lata, confifls only of eight or nine houfes, and 

 a temple of Nand a Deba, at which officiate fome prieftefTes, wh© do not, 

 according to report, either take a row, or obfer^e the practice of chafti- 

 ty, being allowed what intercourfe with the other fex they may think 

 proper to take without reftraint.— Jowahir Singh had now a knowledge 

 of our real character, and faid that he would fetch the loads from 

 Malldri as foon as he fliould have feen his brother. He was anxious 

 to have a goat to facrifice to the Deity of the place in gratitude for 

 our fafe return, but I believe that his own appetite had a greater 

 fhare in inducing him to prefer this requeft, than any motive of religion. 

 Jowahir fays that provifions are very fearce, owing to the vifitations 

 of the locufts, with which the country has been plagued for the lad 

 two months. For the preceding two days we have feen many locufts 

 directing their flight towards the Unde's, where they breed. Thermo- 

 meter at night 72°. 



September 16th. — Thermometer 64 . March at 8. At 1340 paces- 

 we come to a Sankho over the river Rent which feparates Bulan from* 

 Hindu/tan, and falls into the Dauli. At 75^2 encamp in the fields be«* 

 longing to the village of Dak. Gar dinner confrfted of -fome -pumpkins 

 boiled with dal s and hunger made the diih palatable;- 



September 17th.— -Thermometer 66°. March at 8 A. M. rain is* 

 creafes to fuch a degree as to prevent us enjoying the pleafure of the- 

 fhade of the horfe chefnutand rhododendron trees under which we pafs. 

 In one of the former were monkies feeding heartily on their fruit 

 which is readied by few animals. At 1140 paces reach the fummit of 

 fche afcent; and at 3*45 reach a fountain, near which we encamp, on 

 a fpot of uncultivated ground furrounded by the Surf on or muflard 



