position on the borders of Nepal, it is of the greatest
importance in onr relations with that country. The
present Raj bar is an Honorary Magistrate with powers
in criminal work of awarding imprisonment up to six
months and of fining to a maximum, of two hundred
rupees. He enjoys universal respect, and takes great
pains to keep his family from that stagnation which is
the ruin of so many of the Indian nobility. His two
eldest sons (he has five sons and five daughters) are
being educated at Allahabad, and, to ensure proper
supervision of the best kind, they are residing in the
Oxford and Cambridge Hostel, where the University
influence of England can be brought to bear upon
them.
One day we went to see the so-called “ wild men
(Ban Manus) who live quite close to Askot town, though
I had seen them before, and had, in fact, during the cold
weather camped quite close to their dwellings. They
live in a valley some two thousand feet below the town,
and in the heat of the end of June the descent into such
a furnace was quite a consideration. However, we
started at three in the afternoon, to get as much of the
cool of the day as possible, and descended rapidly to
the stream in the valley. The difference of temperature
in these valleys as compared with the hill tops has often
been remarked by travellers, but I think nothing,
apart from actual physical experience, would have borne
the fact home to our party. Longstaff and his two men
were in perfect physical training, having just come
from a trip of considerable hardship, and yet they felt
the heat terribly. When we arrived at our goal, we
found one old man present at the huts, while all the
others were in the woods, and until these appeared we
sat down in the shade away from the piercing rays of
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