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BOOTAN. 
I received a letter on Monday the 19th of May, from the Daeb, to 
signify his having given particular injunctions to all his officers, at the 
different stations, that they should exert their utmost efforts to forward 
me with all possible convenience and dispatch; intimating at the same 
time that I must expect much difficulty and hardship from the badness 
of the mad, which I might also learn from Poorungheerh 
As the Daeb Raja had sent no people for our accommodation, the 
Soobah proposed the expedient of dispatching thirty men, with part 
of our baggage, the same day, to Murichom; upon their return, he 
promised to be able to provide for our immediate departure, and I very 
eagerly accepted his proposal. 
The Soobah dined with us, and partook very heartily of our meal. 
He drank but little, although he seemed to relish our wine; but f 
understood that his countrymen considered him as particularly abste¬ 
mious. His inclination seemed principally directed to trials of skill. 
After dinner he invited us to lire at a mark; and as both himself and 
his people s.eeraed to have been much practised in this diversion, our 
f A Hindoo Gosein, a kind of religious hermit, or pilgrim, who formerly accompa~ 
nied Mr. Bogle to Tibet, and who now attended me on my journey. 
Motives of religious duty, which, among the order of Goseins more especially, 
attaches peculiar respect to every kind and degree of penance, having occasionally led 
Poorungheer among the different tribes of Tartars, he had acquired, during his residence 
amongst them, a very competent knowledge of their manners, and of their language, 
which he spoke with apparent ease ; and by the exemplary regularity of conduct he had 
uniformly preserved in his intercourse with the inhabitants of these regions, I found 
that he had strongly recommended himself to their notice, and obtained the favour of all 
their chiefs. 
