Crossword-Solution: NEWAR 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The British residency--Houses at the temple of Pusputnath--Unprepossessing appearance of the Newar population--Their dress and characteristic features--Ghorkas--Temple of Pusputnath--View from the hill above it--The temple of Bhood--Worshippers from Thibet and Chinese Tartary--Their singular and disgusting appearance--Striking scene in the grand square of the city of Katmandu.

The temple of Balajee--The old Newar capital--The houses and temples of Patn--View from the city gates--Nepaulese festivals--The Newars skilful artisans--The arsenal--The magazine and cannon-foundry.

The appearance of a hill coolie as he thus staggers along under his tremendous burden is singular enough, and so totally unlike that of the coolies of the plains, that it was a sort of promise of there being in store for us more curiosities, both of Nepaulese men and manners, in their native country, and we looked with no little interest upon the first specimens we had seen of the Newar race--the aborigines of Nepaul.

The Newar women, however, were ladylike in their appearance, when compared with some of the Bootya tribe with whom I afterwards made acquaintance.

The Newars, not fettered by any such restraint, can now boast very few noble families; the ancient grandees of the Newar dynasty are extirpated, with the exception of one or two of the old aristocracy, who are in the last stage of decay.