<■.-- - / "^avyo The path was covered with a glazed fur* 



Y» that few of the party efcaped without one or more 



[uitfi dark I reached the Gar&l Gangd, whofe current, daftV 



petuofity. Having fafely reached the bank, we 



• .•'■-. deepefi darkoefs^ and could only afcertain that 



a deep .hill. Here we were obliged to wait about 



iters -our, till a light was brought which (hewed a deep 



.iftrucled by Mooes and long grafs. With much 



trouble we collected the goats and forced them Into the path \ but they 



frequently Hopped, Not being able to get them on after a flop of un- 



ufual lengthy I endeavoured to pafs through them, and when I got to the 



Ibremoft rank, felt myfelf fuddenly flip through the grafs over a fieep 



ledge, which came along the tdgt of the path, and dawn the face of a 



bank or precipice ; for the darknefs prevented me from judging of the 



extent of the danger, A tuft of grafs, after I hid a Chart fall, came be- 



ftweeia my- legs, and irra few fecorids more I found myfelF feated upon 



a (tone as- if upon a fa^.Ule," ray feet ji »t touching the ground. By 



dint- of groping about, I found fome &out tufts of grafs a little above 



me, and well within my reach. Thefe' proved firm and enabled me, 



by there being a fucceffion of ihem, and" by placing my toes againft the 



face of the bank, to raife my head to the level of the pith in the grafs ; 



and the hand of & fervant drew me up. 



September gyth.— Thermometer 6o 9 . This is a defeated village called 

 Fa-rikz-M&th, iituatcd on the top -of a hill, but furrounded 5 except towards 

 the river, by an. amphitheatre of others Hill higher. Bandit 

 ThXpa's fon's party had turned out the inhabitants of a village on 

 ithe oppolite fide Of the Garul Gangti, and taken refuge from the rain of 

 Jafl; night in their houfes, I thought it right to halt. Thermometer 67 "• 

 At four P.M. the fon of Bandu Thapa. and his party, marched to 



