47 8 Mr. stewart’s Account of 
The manner of beftowing their dead is alfo Angular : 
they neither put them in the ground like the Europeans, 
nor burn them like the Hindoos; but expofe them on 
the bleak pinnacle of fome neighbouring mountain, to 
be devoured by wild beafts and birds of prey, or wafted 
away by time and the viciffitudes of weather in which 
they lie. The mangled carcafes and bleached bones lyc 
fcattered about; and, amidft this fcene of horror, fome 
miferable old wretch, man or woman, loft to all feelings 
but thofe of fuperftition, generally fets up an abode, to 
perform the difmal office of receiving the bodies, affign- 
ing each a place, and gathering up the remains when too 
widely difperfed. 
The religion of Thibet, although it be in many of its 
principal dogmata totally repugnant to that of the Bra- 
mins or of India, yet in others it has a great affinity to 
it. They have, for inftance, a great veneration for the 
cow ; but they transfer it wholly from the common fpe- 
cies to that which bears the tails, of which I ffiall fpeak 
hereafter. They alfo highly refpedt the waters of the 
Ganges, the fource of which they believe to be in Hea- 
ven; and one of the firft effects which the treaty with 
the Lama produced, was an application to the governor- 
general, for leave to build a place of worffiip on its 
banks. This it may be imagined was not refufed; and, 
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