532 ROUTE FROM CATHMANDU, IN NEPAL, 



eating eggs, and flesh, and fish, and ghee, and salt, and onions, holding 

 the eating of any one of these to be a great sin : there are about twenty 

 houses. The traveller halts here to refresh, and then proceeds four cos 

 to the great town of Mat-kun-ga, inhabited (besides JBhotias,) by many 

 Chinese. There are some twenty Chinese soldiers cantoned here, and a 

 much larger number of Bhotia soldiers. The whole Stage is over a plain. 



39th Stage, of four cos, to Vi-si-king. This short Stage is over a 

 plain, and you accomplish it by noon. Vi-si-king is a village of seven or 

 eight houses. The animal called King, already described, abounds here- 

 abouts, and at night many of them come close to the village, being never 

 disturbed by the inhabitants, who regard them with respect as being the 

 horses of the gods. 



40th Stage, of five cos, to Chumra. Chnmra is about as large as 

 Vi-si-king, and is inhabited of JBhotias and Chinese. The road to it is 

 level, and the village itself affords abundance of supplies for the traveller. 



41st Stage, of nine cos, to Kam,, which is a town of about one hundred 

 houses. It is a station of the post. The whole nine cos are over a level 

 country, but rarely sprinkled with inhabitants. 



42nd Stage, of five cos, to Kimdah. One cos from Kam is a 

 mountain called Kung-bala, of moderate height. The ascent is very good, 

 but the descent (in going out) as bad ; and when (as in winter) it is 

 incumbered with snow, it is even perilous. Beyond the mountain, and 

 near its base, is the town of Kimda. It is a large place, the station of a 

 post, and of from two to three thousand soldiers of Khatai and of Bhot. 



43rd Stage, of eight cos, to Shu-ba-du. Two hundred paces beyond 

 Kimda, you meet with the river Kiing-ju: over it is an iron bridge of 

 twenty-five arches. On passing the bridge, you pay twenty-five pice to 



