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

B O O T A N ^Hk 4 7female, who each presented us with what their Uttie stock afforded,vegetables, eggs, and poultry, and the usual offering of a pclong handkerchief,tea, and whisky. These people are stationed here by theDaeb Raja, for the purpose of preserving a quick and freecommuni-\cation with his possessions on the borders of Bengal, and of conveyingwith expedition, letters and parcels to and froln the capital. Theycultivate a small parcel of ground, which furnishes grain for their subsistence.Their herds of cows and swine, seek their own food in thespontaneous produce of the woods. Here we found two large peachtrees, some lime and orange trees,and raspberry bushes.We heard the loud and hoarse murmurs of theTehintchieu, rolling ina deep channel at the foot of the mountain. This river runs by Tassisudon,and being swelled by the united streams of the Hatchieu, whichi«+'^kci^*^passes near a place of the same name, and by the Patchieu, which takesits course near Paro, finds a passage between the mountains, fromwhence it is precipitated in tremendous cataracts, and rushing withrapidity between the high cliffs and vast stones that oppose its progress,descends at length iitto the valley^ a few miles eastofBuxadewar,and finally joins the Berhampooter. I ascended a lofty eminence tolook for the river, but itwas too deeply buried in the obscurity of thecliff.The farthest visible mountains to the northward, which I conjectureto be at the distance of twenty miles, were covered with snow. Wesaw one also at half that distance, with some remains of snow upon it.Quitting Gygoogoo at six o'clock on Friday the 23d of May, weproceeded on our journey to Murichom, reckoned to be distant about«