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23d Stage, of two cos, to Digarchi. One cos from Ndtdn is Teshu 

 Lhambu, the especial residence of the Great Lama presiding over this part 

 of Bitot. Teshu- Lhambu embraces hundreds of Gumbas, or convents, and 

 some houses of Cashmiris, and Newars, and Chinese. There is a good 

 bazar, which is open from day light till noon, when it is closed at the sig- 

 nal of a bell tolling. Another cos brings you to the City of Digarchi, 

 which is of great size, extending chiefly from north to south. Here begins 

 a new language, (dialect?) which is called Changi. The houses of Digar- 

 chi are mostly built of pukka bricks, overlaid with pukka plaster. Three 

 thousand JBholia and two thousand Khatai soldiers are stationed at 

 Digarchi. In Digarchi is a fine menagerie, containing, among other 

 animals, a royal tiger, which was sent from the Nepal Raja as a present 

 to the Ruler of Digarchi, — tigers not being natives of Bitot. The 

 animals which you hired to carry yourself and goods to Digarchi, are 

 there relinquished — and new ponies, and camels, and mules, and yaks, 

 hired to take you on. 



24th Stage, of nine cos, to Pind. About two or three hundred paces 

 without Digarchi, towards the east, is a river named Chmr-Erku. Its 

 course is there from north to south — its width about three hundred paces, 

 and its depth great. The bathing of women, and the washing of clothes 

 in this river, are prohibited. The river is passed by an iron bridge of 

 eighteen arches, or passages, built by some former Lama, and now called 

 Samba-Shur, or the eastern bridge. From the river to Pind, the road runs 

 through a cultivated plain, till you reach another river, which having 

 passed by a bridge, you at once enter the town of Pind. Pind is situated 

 at the base of a small hill, the top of which is tenanted by several Bhotia 

 Sirdars, commanding a small detachment of Bhotia and Chinese soldiers. 



25th Stage, of ten cos, to Kydngzhc. The whole way is through a 

 finely cultivated country, producing barley, and pease, and wheat. You 



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