528 ROUTE FROM CATHMANDU, IN NEPAL, 



spring of excellent water. The descent of the mountain is three cos, and 

 at the bottom of it lies the village of Kambha, of about one hundred 

 houses, tenanted by Bhotias, and two Chinese. The latter are soldiers, and 

 superintend the royal Dak. 



30th Stage, of four cos, to Chusher. Proceeding one cos, you come 

 to a " Nullah" four or five paces wide, and crossed by a wooden bridge. 

 One cos beyond the bridge you come to a mountain called Chakshamchu- 

 Ari. On the hither ascent of the mountain, is a convent of regular Lamas — 

 and on the thither side of it another convent of secular or married Lamas. 

 Beneath the mountain flows a river called Yek6-Chdn<r6. Its waves are 

 very large — and its course from the east to the west. Over it is an 

 iron bridge, and also a ferry by boat. The river's width is nearly a cos. 

 From the river an advance of two miles brings you to the village of 

 Chusher, containing about three hundred houses. In Chusher you may 

 buy walnuts, and large apples, and plums, and several sorts of Sattu. 

 The price of a cock is one sozan; of a hen two sozans. 



31st Stage, of four cos, to Chabnd. The whole way lies through a well 

 cultivated country. Chabnd is a village of about three hundred houses. 



32d Stage, of five cos, to Change. Four cos beyond Change is the 

 City of Chang, south of which flows the river Yekb-Chdngb before men- 

 tioned. Large pieces of ice were here seen floating down with its waters. 

 The ferry is by a leathern boat for men, and by a wooden one for 

 animals. You halt on the further side of the river — 'the width of which, 

 at this place, is about a cos. 



33d Stage, of three cos, to Nam. Two cos from Change is a moun- 

 tain, over which you pass. The passage of it is about one cos, and at its 

 base is the village of Nam, of five or six houses. Around Nam are 



