TIBET. 
colour, approaching nearly to what we term a fawn colour; the face, 
belly, and legs, were lighter, indeed almost white. They are said to 
be extremely fleet; and are never taken alive to be rendered service¬ 
able, or domesticated: the young indeed are sometimes caught, but they 
soon pine away and die. I was informed, that the huntsmen in Tibet 
go in quest of them as game, and, by lying in wait, sometimes shoot 
them, and esteem their flesh a great delicacy. I have heard, that four 
of these animals were once in Mr. Hastings’s possession: three of them 
were vicious, stubborn, and untameable; the fourth, a female, was of 
a different disposition, following a catnp, loose, and perfectly familiar 
with every body, and every thing around it. 
By the way, our guide, as well as Poorungheer, deviated a little 
from the road, to pay their respects to Chumularee. Not choosing 
to interrupt their devotions, we moved on. The mountain did not 
appear very lofty from the level of this plain; and I think we passed 
it, leaving it on our right, at about the distance of three miles: yet 
the great altitude of this part of Tibet is demonstrated, not only by 
the many rivers that originate in these frontier mountains, and flow 
towards the south, with a great descent, through Bootan into Bengal: 
but because the streams issuing from it a little further to the north, 
and taking a northerly direction, fall into the Berhampooter, and 
are finally conveyed with it, to a junction, in the neighbourhood of 
the sea, with the waters which flow in a contrary course, from the 
same general store. I conclude, therefore, that spot on which we 
now stood, constitutes the highest point of land, in what is called 
Little Tibet. 
