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a space for a house, building a new one, and pre- 
paring the ground for a crop. 
The Lepchas, like true Buddhists, bury their dead. 
In person they are short, averaging about five feet 
in height. Five feet six is above the usual height, 
and four feet eight is a common stature among the 
men. The total absence of beard, and the fashion 
of parting the hair along the crown of the head, adds 
to a somewhat womanly expression of countenance 
in the men, and the loose jacket with wide sleeves 
which they wear, contributes still more to render it 
rather difficult for strangers to distinguish the sexes, 
especially in middle age. 
Nos. 107—108. Bhotias, Sikhim. 
The Sikhim Bhotias are those subjects of Sikhim 
who live in thevalleys approaehing the snowy ränge, 
as distmguished from the inhabitants of the Terai, 
or sub-Himalayan part of the country, who are 
mostly of Meech origin. Bhotias extend along the 
whole line of the passes leading to the plains from 
the Himalayan ränge; and, with the name, have 
generally retained unchanged the lingual and physical 
characteristics, and even the manners, customs, and 
dress of their transnivean brethren the Tibetans. 
d.—NIPAL AND SlMLA. 
No. 109. Limboos. 
The term Limboo is a corruption of Ekthoomba, 
and is generally used to designate the whole popu- 
lation of tlie mountainous country lying between the 
Dood-Koosi and the Kanki rivers, in Nipal. Their 
original country is Chung, in Tibet. Although they 
have been long in close contact with the Hindoos, 
there is not any perceptible mixture of the blood to be 
observed, whether in more regulär features, or in the 
absenee of the small low nose of the Mongolian 
races, and presence of the beard. In religion they 
are neither Hindoos nor Buddhists; thougli they 
outwardly conform, as their locality requires, to the 
praetiees of either creed. They believe in one great 
god, called Sham-mung, and worship many minor 
deities. J 
No. 110. Magars. 
The Magars are a tribe of no very great magni- 
tude, resident in Nipal. They are unquestionably a 
people of the Southern side of the Himalayas, and 
their original, country is Sikhim, from which they 
were first driven west by the Lepehas across the 
Meehi and Konki rivers, and thence further west by 
the Limboos beyond the Arun and Doodkoosbi. 
ihey are largely enlisted into the Nipalese army 
and are excellent soldiers, having formed a eon- 
siderable portion of the Goorkha regiment enlisted 
by Sir C. Napier in 1850. 
No. 111. Goorung' (Nipal). 
Goorungs of Nipal are a division of the 
r Burbuttiahs, ’ and therefore nominally Hindoos 
unifo ™ly selectingan altitude 
of 5,000 or 6,000 feet, especially between Jumla and 
Kirant, \yhere they rear immense flocks of the Barwal 
goat. They exhibit, in common with most of the 
abonginal tnbes of Nipal, a modified form of the 
Mongolian type, retaining, like the Magars, their 
own vernacular tongue, though, from long inter- 
mixture with the Khas, they have also acquired the 
language of the latter. 
From their energy of charaeter, love of enterprise, 
freedom from the shackles of easte, unadulterated 
military habits, and perfect suhjectibility to dis- 
eiplme, they are eminently litte d for a military 
Ho. 112. Goorkha, Brahmin, and Sood. 
Members of the tliree principal classes in Nipal 
are liere represented. The short, square figure on 
the proper right of the group is a Goorkha, He 
belongs to the Khas, or Kshuttrie division of the 
people, which, though of aboriginal descent, Claims 
to belong to the ancient military division of Hindoo- 
lsm, but has a marked distinetion from the Rajpoot 
tnbes of India. . The true Goorkha has, so to speak, 
lew Hindoo prejudices. He can eat any food except 
beet. He needs no particular care in making his 
cooking place, when absent from liorne; and is in 
every respect, a better soldier than the Hindoo of 
the plains of Upper India. 
The Goorkha represented, is in his ordinary cos- 
tume, and armed with his national vveapons, the 
bow, and the kooken, or curved knife or bill, which, 
in Ins hands and at close quarters, is a very deadlv 
weapon. J 
1 he middle figure of the group is a Nipalese 
Brahmin, who, as deseended from Aryan stock, con- 
trasts Strongly with the Goorkha, whose progenitors 
were I uraman abongines. 
Although strong by religious position, the Brah- 
mms of Nipal do not ever appear to have aspired to 
the condition of rulers of the country. The present 
royal family belongs to the Khas, which in its turn 
has twelve subdivisions, again divided into many 
separate clans, which rank, as it were, in groups. 
Beside the Khas, there are also Ektharga, Thakoori, 
MagGr, and Garung, which are exclusively military 
tribes (Kshuttnes), subdivided, like the Khas, into 
clans or families, whose designations are derived 
evidently from local and aboriginal sources, and 
.H le hifluence of Brahminism did not 
affect the original Constitution of the military tribes 
who accepted Hindooism as a religion. 
Thethird figure is a Sood, who represents the 
mercantile dass of Nipal, but which is now mucli 
scattered along the frontier, and into the Punjab. 
No. 113. Bhotia, Buddhist. 
c.—Tibet. 
„The inhabitants of the Himalayan valleys are of 
libetan origin ; their language and assoeiations 
(8834.) 
differ from those of the people of the plains; to 
tliem the name Bhotia, which belongs in strict 
ness to the inhabitants of Tibet only, is generally 
applied; the Tibetans proper being, on aceount of