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1891.] A. F. R. Hoernle— On the date of the Bower Manuscript. 
(Je-lep-la), lie passed the ‘ Saints’ mount ’ (Kuphu) and ‘ the Guru’s 
defile ** and reached ‘ the black meadow ’ (Na-thang) where he halted. 
Next day he proceeded down ‘ the steep descent’ (Lung-thu), past ‘ the 
big clearing’ (Phadom chhen), to the large Sedong tree’ (Sedong 
chhen). Next day, continuing the descent, he crossed ‘ the water (chhu) 
at ‘ the Lepcha’s house (Rong-li) and ascended to ‘ the big flat stone ’ 
(Dd-lep chhen) where he halted. The following day he crossed ‘ the 
black hill ’ (Ri-nak) and ‘ the mountain torrent ’ (Ri-ze chhu), and as¬ 
cended to ‘the Po-tree halting place ’ (Po-dang). Next day continuing 
his march, he lunched at ‘the big spring’ (Chhu-mik chhen), and 
crossing the ridge at the junction of ‘ the three hills’ (Ri sum), 
reached ‘ the Kalon’s stockade or ‘ pong ’ as the Lepchas call it (Kalon- 
pong), &c., &c. 
The Pahariyas and Bengalis are addicted to giving a personal name 
to their villages; this is perhaps inevitable where the area, as is usual 
in such cases, is thickly populated, and presents no striking natural 
features. The Pahariyas share with Europeans the tendency to trans¬ 
plant to their adopted home, names taken from their old country, 
although these possess no local appropriateness in their new application. 
On the date of the Bower Manuscript.—By A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. 
The Bower manuscript was exhibited to the Society at the two 
meetings in November, 1890 and April, 1891. I call it the “ Bower 
MS.,” in order that Lieutenant Bower, to whose enterprise the learned 
world owes the preservation of the manuscript, may receive the honour 
due to him. Some account of the locality and circumstances of its 
finding will be found in the Society’s Proceedings for November, 1890 ; 
and a preliminary account of the manuscript and its contents was 
published by me in the Proceedings for April, 1891. Since then I have 
spent a long summer vacation in carefully examining the whole manu¬ 
script, and, with the exception of a few leaves, I have read and trans¬ 
cribed the whole. I have every reason to hope that the Bengal 
Government, with its usual liberality in such matters, will enable me to 
publish a complete edition of the manuscript which I am now pre¬ 
paring. 
This paper had been written (in Darjiling, in May), when I received 
(in July), through the kindness of Professor Biihler in Vienna, an 
advance copy of his noticef of the specimen pages of the Bower MS., 
* Vide detailed definitions at p. 60. 
f To be published apparently in the Vienna Oriental Journal. 
