allotted to us a
residence fit only for hogs.

It consisted of a court-yard, surrounded by walls, and what had evidently
been stabling; the apartments were numerous, but excessively small, the
roof of single mats. The place swarmed with vermin. In this we
determined not to stay, and so proceeded to the city, (for sure there
cannot be a capital without a city,) and there, after some delay,
procured two houses, in one of which the present Tongso Pillo had lodged
before his present exaltation. But imagine not that it was a palace. The
two houses together furnished three habitable rooms.

I imagine not that the houses were procured for us by the local
government. We only obtained them by Pemberton's liberality was well
known. The Sepoys' lines were transported hither not by Bhooteas but by
our own people. In addition the people are in many cases insolent, and
it was only after a peremptory message to the Deb, stating what the
consequences would be of such a system of annoyance, that we got any
assistance.

_April 3rd_.--We have heard nothing of the Mutaguat. It appears that
the country is unsettled now. The old Deb having possession of
Tassisudon, and the people here declaring they will stop all supplies if
the Deb does not, according to custom, repair at the usual period to
Tassisudon. A Deewan here, who has held office under four Rajahs, says,
that the present truce is owing to the hot weather; Bhooteas only admire
fighting in the cold season, in conformation of which, he says that in
the cold season the contest will be renewed. There will then be an
additional bone of contention for the present. Nor should I much wonder
if the Paro Pillo then comes forward and takes the Debship and all away.
The Deewan's account of the past fighting, places the Bhooteas in a most
contemptible light: it appears that when they fire a gun, they take no
aim, their only aim being to place their bodies as far as possible from
the weapon; the deadly discharge is followed up by the deadlier discharge
of a stone. At plunder they are more adroit.

The following plants may be found about this place; Ligustrum, Salex
pendula, Valeriana orolifolia, Campanula linearis, senecionideae, Viola,
Jasminum, Rosea, Conaria, mangoe one tree in the gardens, Citrus two or
three species in ditto, Jubrung, Diospyros, Acorus, Veronica, Ranunculus,
Sclerossophalos, Alopecercus, Agrostides, Bombax, stunted weeping
cypress, Pinus longifolia, Punica,