The Lahouli are a totally distinct race from the people of Kulu or the Chumba Guddi range. The Lahouli are a short, sturdy set of men, very ugly, and filthily dirty. The women are decidedly plain. The costume of both sexes consists of a pair of loose woollen drawers, with a frock of the same material, whilst a wrapper is also often wound around the body by being thrown over the shoulders and fastened by a brass clasp in front. Their dress, generally of a black colour, is of a kind of plaid, and their caps are of the same. The women wear their hair either in long plaits fastened at the back of the head with a profusion of red wool and coloured threads, or comb it back off the forehead, tying it in a lump behind, and adorning it in a similar manner. Around the flat circular caps are strung large white shells like cowries, glass beads, and pieces of amber. Around their neck, both men and women wear amulets of mother-of-pearl, pieces of amber, turquoises, and other precious stones. Each man has, hanging to his belt, a tinder pouch and a brass instrument for striking fire, with many other nondescript implements. They spend six months of each year in Kulu on account of the severity of the winter season in Lahoul. The greater part of that time
they pass in dancing and drinking. On their -.jubilees they set off fireworks and make a tremen dcTiTS"-moise, whilst the women dance. These exhibitions do not terminate until they are all too drunk to continue them. In their orgies the women are ridiculously decked out, especially the aged dames. Many of the young damsels have beautiful eyes, of which they make the utmost use.
Kangra is situated in lat. 31° 57' N., long. 76° 4' E. Near Jalandhar, jest after leaving Buttail, is a heap of stones in the centre of the road. This is a cairn formed by Tartar tribes, who invariably pass them on their right hand, as well as throw a fresh stone on the pile. These piles of stones are noticed in Lloyd and Gerard's Travels in the Himalaya, also in the Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, by George Timkowski, and in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society, April 1859, p. 385. — Caubul, pp. 309-314; Imp. Gaz.
KOH-i-TAK. The Sulimani range is finished by the Pahar, or hills of Koh-i-Tak, and to the north west is the Koh-i-Kondi, with a little snow upon its summit. The Kaysar mountain arises in front in a southern direction.