KAMPOOS OR THIBETANS. 



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The palm from the cliffs on the road hither is evidently a species 

 of Phsenix, pinnulis inferioribus spiniformibus reticula copiosa, pin- 

 nulis liniaribus acuminatissimus, apicem versus canaliculars reticulo 

 copioso, the height must be about that of a moderate Areca. No 

 specimens of the trunk, none of flowers and seeds have been brought 

 to me. 



The temples here have a good deal of the Burmese shape, but the 

 dome is more like that of a Mussulman mosque. 



January 22nd. — Yesterday evening Mr. Blake's Khidmutgar died 

 rather suddenly, he had been ailing for some days, but apparently not 

 serious ; his indisposition was owing to over-loading the stomach 

 with radishes, &c. in which all partook too freely during the protracted 

 halt, thus causing a good deal of sickness. 



This place is so straggling that it is difficult to make a guess at the 

 number of the houses, the greater number of the people are temporary 

 residents and mostly are natives of Kampo,* they are more dirty than 

 the Booteas, and seem to have an especial predilection for begging. 

 When wishing to be very gracious they bow and gesticulate awkwardly, 

 shewing their tongue at the same time. Their principal dress is 

 coarse woollen clothes, and in lieu of turbans they wear caps or hats. 

 Their beasts of burden are principally asses, which are perhaps, from 

 bad treatment, undersized : they likewise use goats, and largish ani- 

 mals between goats and sheep in appearance ; of these we saw one male 

 only, it had once spiral horns. Even a little black kid was not exempt 

 from carrying its share, this was ornamented by woollen tassels of a 

 red colour, fastened through a hole in the ear. 



Pemberton tells me, that most of these people come hither with the 

 view of going to Hazoo, a place of pilgrimage in Assam ; some remain 

 here as a security for the return of their brethren in three months, the 

 period during which leave is granted by our friend the Rajah of this 

 place. Their language is totally different from that of the Booteas. The 

 day before yesterday an edict against catching fish, being taken off as I 

 supposed it would be on shewing the Rajah some flies, Blake and I went 

 down, and repeated our visit yesterday; the bed of the river at the 

 debouchment of the path leading towards Tongsa, is elevated 1,431 

 feet, (70.209-), it is of no great size, and is generally fordable ; the 

 fish are almost exclusively Bookhar.f I saw one or two Sentooreahs,| 



* Eastern Thibet, 

 f Barbus hexagonolepis, Asiatic Res. xix.— PI. f. 3, pp. 170, 313, 336. 

 I Cyprinus Semiplotus As. Res. xix.— P). 37, f. % pp. 274, 346. 



