528 . A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



Sober 18th. — About 10 o'clock, the fakir was miffed. A great noife 

 was made, and a ftrict fearch for aboat an hou:; and perfons fent 

 out in every direction: however, i truft, that our meflenger will have 

 got completely out of their reach. This efcape has made them doubly 

 vigilant, and a man looks into the tent every hour at kail, 



OSiober loth.-— The old Pundit, his nephew, and our hill fers 

 were relea fed from their logs, but had their hands bound 

 taken away to Almora. To the Pundits I gave prefentsof m and 



an order for a further fumon my agent; and in the event of their 

 deaths, 1 made a provifion from my effects for the maintenance of their 

 families. We were told that our low country fervants (houid now 

 be teleafed from their logs. Am abbatis of (lakes interwoven with 

 brum wood was made round. The flakes, being only drive-n ftraight 

 down, might eafily be drawn up. I mention this, becaufe, after the 

 Gorkdli? have made an attack, they .ufuaUy entrench themfelves in this 

 manner.. 



Odober 20th.— Thermometer 15®. 



Offiober 21ft.— The fogs are {aid to hang over the Rdmg&ngd at this 

 feafon, for about half this month; when they difperfe, they are very 

 denfe and penetrating* One of the hill fervants I hired as a cooly 

 on the banks of the Nandakni arrived with his load, He had been fick 

 and obliged to (lay at a village behind* The other man Ti l ak, now gone 

 to .Alm'-ra, faid that we might rely ■upon his honefiy and fidelity ; and 

 he has given a proof of it, as if he had been diflioneft, he might have 

 gone off with his load umnolefied : but though evincing fome little 

 ■courage in coming topeifons in captivity, after learning the fate of 

 his cotnracle s we find it is confined to this, for on founding him as to 



