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with small crystals of salt. Throughout the whole of this Stage, fresh 

 water is very scarce. Itillung is a small hamlet of three or four houses, and 

 is a station of the royal post. It is enclosed on either side by silicious 

 mountains, out of the rock of which numbers of gun flints are made. 

 There is a well of fresh water at Rillung. 



27th Stage, of eight cos, to Lagdnche. Four cos in advance of Ril- 

 lung you come to a village called Zarrah, consisting of three or four houses. 

 This also is a Dak station. Here travellers halt at noon awhile, and 

 refresh themselves and their cattle with Satu and water : and then proceed 

 four cos more to Lagdnche. The whole of this stage is over a plain 

 bounded on either hand, at the distance of about a cos, by mountains. 

 Lagdnche is a village of about two hundred houses of Bhotias, with a few 

 Chinese. South of the village is a vast lake, in truth, an ocean, called 

 Yamzu. There are three rocky isles in the lake, where herdsmen dwell 

 and feed the large herds of the Yak. Many fishermen also tenant these 

 isles, whose fishing boats are made of leather: for the water is full offish. 

 The water is extremely salt and bitter. 



28th Stage, of eight cos, to Paite. Beyond Lagdnche you pass over 

 a plain extending all the way to Paite. The plain is uncultivated, but 

 abounds with deer, Icings, and other wild animals, which the Bhotias of 

 those parts constantly hunt for the sake of their flesh. The great lake of 

 Yamzu accompanies the traveller to Paite, which is but a tiny hamlet, 

 affording however a market of bread, and fish, and dressed meat, adequate 

 to the traveller's wants. There is a Police Officer at Paite, who examines 

 the traveller's baggage and passports. 



29th Stage, of twelve and a half cos, to Kambha. Eight cos in advance 

 of Paite you journey over a plain, and then reach the base of a mountain 

 called Kamhhal, the ascent of which is one and a half cos. On the top is a 



