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The Ntjhdnchi or Colour bearer of a company belonging to Bhacti 

 Thapa, paid us a vifit. Afterwards Bhawani Singh Negi made his 

 appearance. He fays that our loads {ball be brought from Malldri in 

 a fhort time, and that he will charge the expence as a fet offagainft our 

 account of 101 rupees advanced to him on his bond. Thermometer 

 at night 64 . 



iber 18th. — Thermometer 6V. At noon 74 . Night 64 . ^ a ' 

 By ixiowers of fhort continuance but fmart in the courfe of the day with 

 intervals of fun (nine and heat The jamadar Jagrup fent fome rice 

 and flour laft night, and today a prefent of game. 



This man was with Sheristha Thapa at Sirinagar in 1808, when 

 Mr. H. came with the party to furvey ; but on account of his difguife 

 did not recognife him. He gave the following account of the Iran fac- 

 tions which had reached us in a confufed manner, whilil in the Uncle's. 

 Dasrat'h, who was formerly in power at Sirmagar, but had been di-f- 

 piaced,had written information to Catman-du, that Bhacti Thapa had 

 allowed two Europeans to go through the country in his di virion into 

 the Undes. The Nepalefe government fent Bhacti a reprimand, on the 

 receipt of which he lent Jagrup with thirty men to examine into the 

 foundation of the reports propagated by Dasrat'h, with whom he had 

 long been at enmity. On Jagrup reaching Baragaon, he found thatBHA- 

 wani Singh, had left his houfe to avoid the opprefiioa of a party of 

 Dasrat'h 's men, which to the amount of ninety had taken pofTefnGn 

 of his premifes, broken open his granaries, and ufed the grain they had 

 fwimdin them. He had armed all his dependents : but on Jagrup fend- 

 ing him afiurances of his perlonal fafety, he went over to him. Bha- 

 v/ans then made a declaration of his ignorance of our being Europeans, 

 and of his having received the fum of eighty-feven rupees to forward 



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