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female, who each presented us with what their little stock afforded, 
vegetables, eggs, and poultry, and the usual offering of a pelong hand¬ 
kerchief, tea, and whisky. These people are stationed here by the 
Daeb Raja, for the purpose of preserving a quick and free communi¬ 
cation with his possessions on the borders of Bengal, and of conveying 
with expedition, letters and parcels to and from the capital. They 
cultivate a small parcel of ground, which furnishes grain for their sub¬ 
sistence. Their herds of cows and swine, seek their own food in the 
spontaneous produce of the woods. Here we found two large peach 
trees, some lime and orange trees, and raspberry bushes. 
We heard the loud and hoarse murmurs of the Tehintchieu, rolling in 
a deep channel at the foot of the mountain. This river runs by Tassi- 
sudon, and being swelled by the united streams of the Hatchieu, which 
passes near a place of the same name, and by the Patchieu, which takes 
its course near Paro, finds a passage between the mountains, from 
whence it is precipitated in tremendous cataracts, and rushing with 
rapidity between the high cliffs and vast stones that oppose its pro¬ 
gress, descends at length into the valley, a few miles east ofBuxadewar, 
and finally joins the Berhampooter. I ascended a lofty eminence to 
look for the river, but it was too deeply buried in the obscurity of (he 
cliff. 
The farthest visible mountains to the northward, which I conjec¬ 
ture to be at the distance of twenty miles, were covered with snow. We 
saw one also at half that distance, with some remains of snow upon it. 
Quitting Gygoogoo at six o’clock on Friday the 2,3 d of May, we 
proceeded on our journey to Murichom, reckoned to be distant about 
