5 i,4 A JOURNEY TO LAKE- 



October 7th,— Thermometer 6o°. At 9 begin our march. As 1 

 thought it probable, that I {houid-.not.be able to overtake 'he goats be- 

 fore night, and as the road was bad, and the Iky - looked wild and 

 threatening, I endeavoured, as I paffed forne rocks, to*find out fo-me -ca- 

 vern in which l might take up my lodgings for the carriers were fo far 

 behind as to leave me little hope of their arriving with t^y.-bed, J faw 

 at a di fiance from the road a deep recefs in the face of .th*. rpr*i, .1 ad 

 congratulating my felf on my good luck, went to examine it more cofe- 

 ly, w,hejil fuddenly felt an offenfi.ve fmell, and proceeding to the cave, 

 found the dead body of a man. In what manner he came by his death, 

 I could not learn from the appearances about hirn.° 9 but, as he was not 

 {tripped and had white clothes, I fuppofe he was forae pilgrim irom 

 Hinduftan. At 8900 paces, I found the goats on a fandy and llony part 

 of the bed of the Alacananda. My bed arrived about ten o'clock, and 

 my tent in the middle of the night. The Bichait pretends to be our 

 friend, and recommends us to be on our guard. We iet lire to piles o£ 

 iijewood^ in order to keep off the leopards,. 



Ocloher 8th,— Thermometer 56 . March at q The deferted con- 

 dition of the villages, threatens this unfortunate country with the lofs of 

 all its inhabitants, if it remain under the dominion of the Gor kalis, It 

 is. odd enough that every governor, and indeed every fipdhi fees what 

 is to happen,, but no one feems to make .any attempt on principle, to 

 check the threatened depopulation. The governors of the different 

 diltricts remain in them but for a few years, and it appears a maxim 

 with them to make hay whillt the fun-fhines, whatever ills befal the 

 misiortunate rayut from their exactions. Thermometer at night 65 . 



' OSlober 9th.— Thermometer 59°. It began to rainbrifkly foon af- 

 ier I commenced my march, and continued two-thirds of the way.* 



