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origin, arms, clothing, and utenfils of -various forts. Images in
clay, gold, filver, and enamel, the objefts of worihip of the fame
people. Captain' Jones enjoyed the fame of this great exploit but
a little time ; in’ a iliort while he fell a vixftim to the. unwholesome
climate of C obs Beybar. Mr.Rennel prèfented mé with afmall
■print o f a view a i Delamtvtta, as a mbit fatisfa&ory proof o f the
courage o f the commander who could attempt fiich an adventure.
It produced offers o f peace front the great LaM.a. ÜH*
Teems the? infillt was offered to us by his tributary the Bei: or
Deeb Rajab,vth.a, tributary to the former, rules immediately over
the Bootanners. This produced the embaffy o f Mr. Eogle, in
1774) who was nominated for that purpofe by Mr. Hajlings.
On the borders of Bootan,- ' after eroding the mountains
'¡from Caos Beybarj is’ the town of Buxaduar, feated.-joa-tbe-
flat top o f à wooded hill, furrounded with others of conoid
forms, covered with trees to their fummits. This place is ex-
ceffively unwholefome from May till the end o f September, oc-
cafioned by the bad air afifing from the vapours exhaled by
the power of the fun,- and falling in form of a dew after fun-
fet, which renders the. air raw, damp, and chilly ; even in the
-moiï fùltfycçlimate;the thermometer wasjIbetween May i^th
and the:aid, never .at two-'in. the .'afternoon above-8»° or below
73?ï.:.I have,a .view of this, place,: m'ade.in Mr. Bogie's expedition,
,and a few others, which I obtained copies,of by Mr. Hajlings’s
permiflion.
, A t Chooka', about thirty-eight .miles, farther to the north, is
àfpecimen of a bridge, common in this country, but to others
of furprifing ftrufture, cbmpofed of iron chains covered with
planks, and flretched from precipice to precipice acrofs the
-river.