40 BHOTIA MEHALS 



Sugar Candy — one hundred maunds. 



Spices — ten maunds. 



Dyes— chiefly lac and indigo, ten maunds. 



Wooden Vessels — chiefly cups for tea, are in considerable demand ; 

 there are turned from various kinds of wood ; those in greatest request are 

 formed of the knot of a particular tree, which is to be found only in the 

 eastern hills, near and beyond Katmandu, whither the turners from Bitot 

 annually resort. Tea-cups of this wood are deemed by the Tartars to 

 possess peculiar virtues, and an unblemished specimen will sell as high 

 as fifty rupees ; the price of ordinary cups varies from four annas to two 

 rupees each. 



Timber — in the shape of spars and planks, for building, is carried 

 for sale to the nearest marts. Indigent Bhotias, who have no other capi- 

 tal but their labor, carry on this traffic. 



Cabinet-ware, glass-ware, and a variety of other commodities are parti- 

 ally exported : their aggregate value may be assumed at ten thousand rupees. 



IMPORTS. 



Salt— the natural produce of lakes in Hiundes, is universally pre- 

 ferred in this province, for culinary purposes, to the Sdmbher and other 

 cheap kinds of salt, from the plains : the latter are considered compara- 

 tively bitter and unpalatable, and are only used for cattle. The relative 

 prices of the two kinds of salts in question at Almora, are from six to 

 seven rupees the maund for Bhot, and three to four rupees for plain salt. 



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