HISTPEY OP SlICHLM AND ITS RULERS. 19 



had to sign an ignominious treaty. In this war a party of Tibetans are 

 said to have reached Martam on the left bank of the Tista, but it is 

 quite clear from the sites of the fortifications near Katong Ghat that 

 the popular party in Sikhim successfully and without help prevented 

 the Goorkhas crossing tlie Tista. In fact, in the proclamation 

 referred to above, the Raja records that the Tibetans had refused 

 Sikhim help or to listen to their representations, when peace was 

 being made, on the ground that though Bhutan had rendered the 

 Tibetans assistance, the Sikhimese had not. In consequence during 

 the negotiations carried on by the Chinese General Hosi-Thang- 

 thang, Sikhim was not represented, the Raja and his family were 

 reduced to great straits, tlie boundary with Nepal was drawn back 

 to the left bank of the Tista, and Tibet resumed the Raja's fiefs at 

 Piahte Jong and Samye, and pushed its own boundary up to the 

 Chola-Jelep range. 



For some years Pemiongchi and all the South Tista tract paid 

 rent to Nepal, until in 1815 the Nepalese were expelled by the 

 British Government, who by the Treaty of 1817 restored all this 

 country together with the Terai to the Sikhim Raja. But even then 

 the Raja had to be content to see his western boundary thrown back 

 from the Kankayi to the Phalut range and the Mechi river. This 

 boundary appears to have been originally laid down by Major Barre 

 Latter, who was accompanied by Nazir ChainaTinjin, MachaTimbah, 

 and Lama Duchim Longadoo. About the year 1814 the Raja com- 

 menced building a palace at Tumlong, which was henceforward to be 

 the capital in preference to Rubdentse, considered insecure and too far 

 distant from Tibet. 



In 1819 a serious quarrel arose between the Raja and his 

 minister, his own uncle Bho-lod, but was patched up and an agree- 

 ment made. Another agi'eement was made the following year, and 

 a third in 1824, but about that time his wife and child (the former 

 seems to have been friendly to the minister) died, and the Raja, freed 

 from all restraint, seemed determined to make away with his relative : 

 so finally in 1826 Bho-lod was treacherously murdered near Tumlong 

 by Tung-yik Menchoo, father of Dunya Namgye, better known as tlie 

 Pagla Dewan. Bho-lod's cousin, Yuk-LliatGruj) alias tkra-thup, fearing 

 a similar fate, fled from Sikhim and took refuge at Unthoo in Nepal 

 with some 800 of his Lepcha tribesmen. 



Shortly after this disputes arose on the Sikhim and Nepal 

 boundary, which cameunderthe cognizance of the Governor-General's 

 Agent for the North-Eastern Frontier and the Resident in Nepal. 

 In 1828 Captain Lloyd was deputed to the Sikhim frontier in 

 connection with these disputes. lie penetrated the hills in company 

 with Mr. J, W. Grant, the Commercial Resident at Malda. as far as 



