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BHOOTAN AND THE BHOOTANESE. 

legging of broad cloth is attached to a shoe, made generally of buffalo hide. No Bhootanese ever travels during the winter without protecting his legs and feet against the effects of the snow by putting on these boots, which are secured by a garter tied under the knee. A cap of fur or coarse woollen cloth completes the habiliment, and the only variation obervable is the substitution of a cloth for the woollen robe during the summer months of the year. The food of the superior classes consists of the flesh of goats, swine, and cattle, and rice imported from the Dooars. The mode of preparing their food is most inartificial and rude, with but little attention to cleanliness, and still less to the quality of the meat they consume. They are fond of tea, and use it in large quantities. The diet of the great body of the people is the most miserable it is possible to conceive. They are restricted to the refuse of wretched crops of unripe wheat and barley, and their food consists chiefly of cakes made from these grains very imperfectly ground. All classes are very much addicted to the use of inebriating liquors. The amusements of the Bhootanese are almost entirely confined to archery and quoits. Their character seldom appears to greater advantage than when engaged in those exercises. -(Abridged from Pemberton's " Eastern Frontier.")