MANASAROVARA IN ' (JN-DES. 5 i 5 



The road lay through a country, that once was highly cultivated, but 

 which exhibits now little more than traces of what it has been. This 

 day I found two men under the Pippal tree near the Nanddkni, who wiih- 

 ed to become my/ fervants : one of thefe was a one eyed fellow who 

 had affifted in carrying our loads from Najlbdbdd. As they feemed 

 firing enough to be ufeful as carriers, and faid they were ftarving in this 

 co inuy had no connections, having loft their wives, I took them into 

 emjJoy. Having mentioned the general features of the country, we 

 went through this-day in our route upwards, it is unneceflary to fay 

 more than that the luxuriant vegetation had fo altered its face in many 

 places, as to render it a work of fome time to recognife them. After 

 •a^very complete wetting, the feel of the fun which fhewed itfclf 

 nearly unclouded, near Karri Praydg, we reached the Pindar-Gangd at 

 6357 paces, when we c rolled the Jhula. On the op polite fide, on a 

 • itone Chabutra under a Pippal tree, we found Bandu Thapa, who rofe 

 at our approach- He is a flout old man of feventy, plain in his man- 

 ners and drefs, and altogether not fuperior in his appearance to one of 

 ihezamindirs of Ghdzipur* He fent word by the Bichdri, that when 

 we had eaten and taken fome refi„ he would wait on us. He came 

 sin the evening accompained by the Bickdri and the Kamuniah. On 

 enquiring what were the motives for our paffing through their coun- 

 try, we .replied that we wifhed to fee the horfes of the Undes and to 

 procure feme fhawl wool goats. Why did we difguife ourfeives? To 

 this it was anfwered, that he mult well know it was the general cuftom 

 •of pilgrims fo to do, but that we had a farther inducement, for, if this 

 •bad not been done, we fhould not have been able to enter the Undh, as 

 -he mud not be ignorant that all entrance to that country is interdicted 

 to the Gorkdlis and to Europeans alfo. Why, ne next afked, had we not 

 applied for a Parwana? Our anfwer was, that had we waited the time 

 liecefTary lor procuring a Farivdndj the feafon for going through the 



