cloudless sky with most powerfid lustre. We were urgently entreated
to pass the night here; many arguments were used to dissuade us from
proceeding, and We were assured it was utterly impracticable to reach
Tassisudon before midnightrijut al! was in vaau ; Ok' the recollection
nf'Orar past sufferings art Wandrpore, determined us not -to hazard, if
we could possibly avoid it, an exposure ’to similar calamities j a resolution
which the wretched appearance of this solitary mansion, and the
■ more comfortable prospect of home, tended strongly to confirm. After .
partaking therefore of the scanty fare which this miserable place afforded,
milk and roasted rice, we mounted our horses, and, in the blaze of day,
moved slowly on; for a prodigious high mountain lay before us,
clothed with thick woods, and we had to climb it %y a steep ascent.
We were four hours in arriving at its summit, where we looked, as well
as from many openings in the road, upon an assemblage of mountains
behind mountains, thrown together, like the fragments Of a ruined
world, in wild disorder. On the summit, which was -crowned with a
little level space, was one of those long monuments already mentioned,
inscribed with the mystic words, Oom mauneepaimee oom. We
found here two servants belonging to the Daeb, and one of-the Tasse
Zoompoon’s, with whom, -having taken a cup of tea, we advanced on
our way, greatly refreshed and exhilarated.
The descent was so gradual and short, compared with the preceding
ascents of this day’s journey, as to strike us very forcibly with an
opinion, that the elevation of Punukka was much inferior to that of
Tassisudon ; and hence we accounted for its superior warmth.
Wild animals are so extremely rare, as far as my experience and
information leads me togefenblude, an1 fiootan, ,thatT must pot pass*,
without particular -mention, a miriiatude1 .of.-mopfcies which.,we say»
playing-their gambols, by'the road side:
They were of (large and.fhandsame kine|; with Blank faces* sur-.-
rounded fry,3ai streak of white hair, and;ver,y Loiagislendeiialasils. ■- cfhe-yv
atBliibHuhnoowtmt of .India, the largest .in. these regions, and the•
gentlest.'of the'monkey tribetheyarerfieiltlisacred h)|$sl$b>lBudifi£as .as>
well asib^ithe^HfcdcsoS;, .who?have'tgiv,e"niithemca ip
their nfrscellkiieaus .and'toultifkriousimfilhqldgy^ l"1
j Kfetebei sa'wfr* »'multitude -ofathemat 'Mutttira iidoH*i£doslkn,fwhichi
#ere^ daily fod> jp6dipe>bf »w stlpp^^idph
fbrilfeei^^h^prt^b^fhd Hifrdaojpriiiee,M adajge&SsnHiai. > Weaturteffr
amOngsf thbm with some diffid©nce'yToi^=they iwfere, iboldiand iaetive-f:
TbMeredsib'diffiGultrf'tS avoid ahy sort of might
chdose-HP^^e.^'Reibnrineht- was-oufioidlhe; duestibn^for-I >jvas> in»
-toi'uni tedn sbife common
ehuse. '' 'One- amongst them wasdatfie -from an accidental Mirt;: and itt
tras-s\Hf>?i§lng} ihconsequence of this-resemblariceitei his ^tft&n|i^sthat
partial-!intention, :and indulgence hesshad^btamdd^bpiwhieh,pBtleed9-
he seemed; perfectly sensible. Iihave alss. noticed nmltifmfcsibfi lhe-
same species, near Amboa in Bengal.
Exemption from annoyance, emboldens- all -animated 'nature^Tpass^/
therefore from this instance into another element', the water. The.scul$,
inhabitants of the riverJumna, that winds along the holders of Alumna,-,
are found also to be ’equally protected by the HirtdOd faith. The fish,
of which that river is full, are frequently, seen to. rise to the surface'of*
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