lopes of hills, covered with Andropogoneous grasses. Rice,
beans, wheat, oranges, _toot_, _chanra_. Narcissus in swarms, brought in
from the _kafirs_.

Another bridge was here crossed, the same as at lower Chugur Serai. No
tributaries passed, the river fordable at rapids, but the road is not
passable for guns.

Aquila, Enicurus, Alcedo bengalensis common, as well as jack snipe.

Red-billed crow, chakor, yellow wagtail, Fringilla, Muscicapa in flocks,
feeding in the fields, and from trees on insects.

The blackbird of the Himalayas, wild pigeons. Narcissus in abundance in
sandy fields, Cryptandrioid, Clematis, Rubus, Euonymus, Pteris!

We had an interview with the _kafirs_ or infidels about a mile below
Katoor, they seemed at first much alarmed, our retinue not being small or
unarmed, and their reliance on Mussulman faith not very strong. They
took up their post at the foot of a hill where a deputation of the Khan
of Chugur Serai, (who has married a Chief's daughter) met them; they
received the deputation with a _feu de joie_ from one or two
firelocks, and then accompanied him to us, preceded by two drums, one of
ordinary, the other of an hour-glass shape, and two pipes of gramineous
culm, with three or four holes, and apparently oblique mouth-pieces, but
of ordinary sound. The Chiefs, the head of whom is Hussin Ali's father-
in-law, having been introduced, advanced, and commenced turning and
stamping round a circle.

The usual formalities then took place; the followers, although a fine
bodied people, and very active, were excessively dirty, and not very
fair; most were dressed in skins, having the hair inside, armed with
bows, either straight or like cow's horns, and daggers.

The Chiefs were much fairer than their followers, and in the expression
of face and eyes European; but in all cases the forehead was very
slanting, and head generally badly developed.

Their dress consisted of cotton frocks, with slashed sleeves, embroidered
thickly with worsted network: they wear short _pyjamas_, and skin shoes,
with thick skin soles; one had short boots with hair inside: most were
ornamented with the blue and yellow _longhys_ of Pushut, etc. The hair
is cut short except that of the Chiefs, who had fillets left round their
heads, adorned with cowries, in radiated shapes, with a red, worsted,
pendant tassel. The headman had a pendant wire chain with ornaments, and
from the centre of the tassel, the _Monaul_ pheasan