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CARLI CAVES. 
covered with small agates, of which I collected a few. It was a long 
stage, and I did not reach the ground till eleven. The Killadar of 
Esapoor paid me a visit, and informed me that he had received 
orders to show me the fort of Low Ghiir. In the evening, Harry 
Punt Bow, deputy toGundeh Row Rastieh, Ser Soobah of the Cokan, 
who was on his road to the country below the Gauts, came also to 
wait on me, and brought presents of fruit, &c. Gundeh Row, being 
supreme head of Low Ghur, Esapoor, and most other forts in the 
country, had sent Hurry Punt to represent him, and receive my 
visit. He was a fine old man, with a white beard, and smiling 
countenance. I gave him notice of my intention to be there on the 
:^6th, to breakfast, and desired guides to be sent. 
October ^5.— Breakfast was sent up to the caves, and we went 
there before the sun became hot. The ascent was steep, but ren- 
dered easy by steps which had been cut in the rock. The whole 
brow of the hill was covered with jungle, which concealed the 
caves till we came to an open space of about one hundred feet, 
which had been levelled by the cutting away of the sloping hill, 
till a perpendicular surface of about fifty feet had been found in 
the solid rock. Here a line of caverns had been excavated, the prin- 
cipal of which struck me with the greatest astonishment from its 
size, and the peculiarity of its form. It consisted of a vestibule of 
an oblong square shape, divided from the temple itself, which was 
arched, and supported by pillars. The accompanying view will 
give a better idea than words can, of its internal appearance. The 
length of the whole is one hundred and twenty six feet, the breadth 
forty six feet. No figures of any deities are to be found within the 
pagoda, but ihe walls of the vestibule are covered with carvings 
