472 Mr. stewards Account of 
The Thibetians are of a fmaller fize than their 
fouthern neighbours, and of a lefs robuft make. Their 
complexions are alfo fairer, and many of them have even 
a ruddinefs in their countenances unknown in the other 
climates of the eaft. Thofe whom I faw at Calcutta ap- 
peared to have quite the Tartar face. They are of a mild 
and chearful temper; and Mr. bogle fays, that the 
higher ranks are polite and entertaining in converfation, 
in which they never mix either brained compliments or 
flattery. The common people, both in Boutan and Thi- 
bet, are cloathed in coarfe woollen fluffs of their own 
manufacture, lined with fuch ikins as they can procure ; 
but the better orders of men are dreffed in European cloth, 
or China filk, lined with the fineft Siberian furs. The 
ambaflador from the Deb Rajah, in his fummer-drefs at 
Calcutta, appeared exactly like the figures we fee in the 
Chinefe paintings, with the conical hat, the tunick of 
brocaded filk, and light boots. The Thebetian who 
brought the firft letter from the Lama was wrapped up 
from head to foot in furs. The ufe of linen is totally 
unknown among them. The chief food of the inhabi- 
tants is the milk of their cattle, prepared into cheefe, but- 
ter, or mixed with the flour of a coarfe barley or of peas, 
the only grain which their foil produces; and even thefe 
articles are in a fcanty proportion : but they are furnifhed 
with 
