of meal made into a with it at a situated village which we visited twice we were received at the house of the who had accompanied us throughout he is a and the large house in which he made us welcome stands in his own everything was prepared for us the mud floors were swept cotton were laid down on the blue and cultivated for religious ornament were in all the rooms and the women were in dress and loaded with coarse right hearty was the welcome mr loved and therefore was loved the to him were not natives but brothers he drew the best out of them their and were not to him rubbish but subjects for minute investigation and study his courtesy to all was frank and dignified in his dealings he was just he was intensely interested in their interests his and knowledge of sacred literature gave him almost the standing of an among the among them and his medical skill and knowledge joyfully used for their benefit on former occasions had won their regard so at as everywhere else the elders came out to meet us and cut the branches away on our road and the silver horns of the above a come along the valley the servants of englishmen beat the in the and valleys the beat and cheat them and the women are shy with strangers but at they were frank and friendly with me saying as many others had said we will trust any one who comes with the missionary s home was typical of the dwellings of the richer and it was a large rambling three house the lower part of stone the upper of huge sun dried bricks it was adorned with projecting windows and brown wooden fuel � the dried of animals � is too scarce to be used for any but cooking purposes and on these in the severe cold of winter the people sit to the warm sunshine the rooms were large with rods and with split white pebbles set in clay there was a temple on the roof and in it on a platform were life size images of seated in eternal calm with his downcast eyes and mild face the ra the great mercy jam the wisdom and na the justice in front on a table or altar were seven small lamps burning oil and twenty brass cups containing minute of rice and other things changed daily there were prayer wheels horns and drums and a prayer six feet high which it took the strength of two men to turn on a shelf immediately below the were the brazen bell and a brass blossom and the brass decorated with feathers which is used at and for pouring holy water upon the hands at in houses in which there is not a roof temple the best room is set apart for religious use and for these which are always surrounded with musical instruments and of power and receive worship and daily being a religion of the family and household in his family temple offered gifts and thanks for the of the journey he had been assisting mr for two years in the translation of the new testament and had wept over the love and sufferings of our lord christ he had even desired that his son should receive and be brought up as a christian but for among the himself he could not break with custom and his creed in the usual living room of the family a platform raised only a few inches ran partly round the wall in the middle of the floor there was a clay fireplace with a prayer wheel and some clay and brass cooking pots upon it a few shelves fire bars for a wooden and some spinning arrangements were the furniture a number of small dark rooms used for sleeping and opened from this and above were the and reception rooms wooden posts supported the roofs and these were with the of the field narrow steep in all houses lead to the family rooms in winter the people live below alongside of the animals and in summer they sleep in loosely built of branches on the roof s roof was covered like others at the time to the depth of two feet with hay i e grass and which are wound into long ropes experience having taught the that their scarce is best preserved thus from and waste i bought hay by the yard for our food in this hospitable house was simple fresh or dried and with honey y milk and cheese sour cream peas beans balls of and of abominable things a dirty looking beer made from was offered with each meal and tea frequently but i took my own on the sly i have mentioned a as part of the of the living room in the is used for making tea i give the for six persons boil a of tea in three of water for ten minutes with a heaped of put the into the with one pound of butter and a small of salt until as thick as cream tea made after this fashion holds the second place to in affections the butter according to our thinking is always the mode of making it is and it always has a rank from the in which it was kept its value is by age i saw skins of it forty fifty and even sixty years old which were very highly and would only be opened at some special family festival or funeral during the three days of our visits to both men and women wore their festival dresses and apparently abandoned most of their ordinary occupations in our honour the men were very anxious that i should be amused and made many grotesque suggestions on the subject why is the european f among the woman always writing or sewing they asked is she very poor or 