An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

182 BOOTAN.;and took a very afiectionate leave of him. Human nature is very muchthe same, and but httle modified in the expression of its fond propensities,amongst the rudest or the most poHshed nations on the globe.I valued them for their affection, and him for his attachment to hisnative home. Indeed I felt myself the force of the same sentiment." Where'er I go, whatever realms to see," My heart, untravclled, fondly turns to thee" Still to my Albion turns with ceaseless pain," And drags at each remove a length'ning chain."After a short delay, we mounted our horses, and advanced throughthe valley, which contained many villages, and was very completely cultivated.The sides of the mountains to the right and left, were coveredwith thick groves of pines : they contained also numerous clusters ofhouses, and some handsome villas, with gardens and orchards. Theroad was good, and the ascent so easy, as to be scarcely perceptible.Many of the Tangun horses, peculiar to Bootan, and, I was told, thegreatest part of those that constitute the caravan annually sent toRungpore, arc bred in this valley.The number of mares, running atliberty with their foals, were rather troublesome to our party, as theynever emasculate the horses in this country, and by nature they arer excessively spirited.About four o'clock we came to the end of our day's journey, a shortJ^!^ stage of about nine miles, and entered Dukka-jeung, a fortress builtupon the crown of a low rocky hill, which it entirely occupies, con-