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CHAPTER X. 
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Quit the Monastery of Terpaling, on my Return towards Bengal—Annee Goomba 
—Annees, Nuns—Gylongs, Monks.—Cursory View of the interdicted Orders. 
—Polyandry—Influence on the Manners of the People—Tendency to check the 
too great Increase of Population—and prevent the inhuman Practice known to 
prevail in China.—Marriage Ceremonies.—Bleak and dreary Aspect of the 
Country—Rigour of the Winter—extreme Purity of the Atmosphere.— Precau¬ 
tions to secure the Surface of the Soil, and at the same Time enrich the Lands. 
—Course of the Seasons.—Dukque. — Lake Ramtchieu — Skating—Solidity of 
the Ice—intense Severity of the Frost.—Shawl Goats—Soomoonang — Punukka 
—Buxadewar—Rungpore. - - 347 
PART III. 
Report delivered to the Hon. Warren Hastings, Esq. Governor General of Bengal, 
upon the Result of my Mission to the Court of Teshoo Loomboo. - 361 
A List of the Usual Articles of Commerce between Tibet and the surrounding 
Countries. - - - - - -381c 
PART IV. 
Some Account of the Vegetable and Mineral Productions of Bootan and Tibet. 387 
PART V. 
Letter addressed to the Hon. John Macpherson, Esq. Governor General of Bengal, 
containing some Particulars relating to the Journey of Poorungheer to Teshoo 
Loomboo ; the Inauguration of Teshoo Lama; and the State of Tibet from 
1783 to 1785. ------ 419 
PART VI. 
Some Account of the Situation of Affairs in Tibet, from 1785 to 1793. - 437 
