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passes which lead thence into Tibet. While on these high wind- 
swept passes he was able at least to see, even if he did not reach, 
that glorious peak of Chumlari which had, from Turner’s description, 
so kindled his boyish ardour to travel. A fortunate accident had 
gained for him the acquaintance of the great Jung Bahadur ; 
thanks to this, Hooker was given an opportunity, which no one 
has enjoyed since, of spending the latter part of 1848 in similarly 
exploring some of the valleys of Eastern Nepal. During most of 
his sojourn in the Himalayas Hooker travelled and surveyed 
unaccompanied by any European. But in October, 1849, his friend 
r. Campbell, then the Superintendent of Darjeeling, obtained 
official permission to visit native Sikkim and joined Hooker. 
Shortly afterwards the Sikkim Ministry decided that this was an 
excellent opportunity to take of showing discourtesy to the Indian 
overnment. is discourtesy assumed the form of seizing and 
maltreating Campbell ; Hooker, who was at the same time made 
a prisoner, they refrained from injuring. Towards the end of 
December, 1849, the captives were released and the next three 
months were spent by Hooker in Darjeeling closely occupied in the 
task of arranging his huge collections and in that of reducing, with 
the aid of a number of devoted Anglo-Indian friends, the observations 
made during his survey of the country. 
Some of the results of Hooker’s Indian observations were pub- 
lished by the Asiatic Society of Bengal while he was in India, On 
his return to England in 1851, he at once resumed work on the 
materials of his antarctic voyage, the second section of his great 
work, again in two quarto volumes, being completed in 1855, under 
the subsidiary title ‘ Flora Novae Zelandiae.’ But while engaged 
on this and on the subsequent section of the same work, the openin 
part of which was also issued in 1855, Hooker simultaneously took 
in hand, largely in collaboration with his friend Thomson, the elabora- 
tion of their Indian material. Two very fine illustrated folios 
dealing with Himalayan species appeared. The first of these, dealing 
with the Rhododendrons of the Siickim Himalaya, was edited from 
Hooker’s notes, sketches and material by his father, and issued 
between 1849 and 1851; the second, a volume of illustrations of 
Himalayan plants, chiefly made on behalf of an Indian friend, 
Mr. Cathcart, in the neighbourhood of Darjeeling, was edited, with 
descriptions by Hooker himself, in 1855. During this period, 
Hooker and Thomson collaborated in the preparation of a ‘ Flora 
Indica,’ the first and only volume of which appeared in 1855; in the 
previous year, Hooker had published his ‘ Himalayan Journals,’ 
