CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



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Churra, English station of — Khasia people — Garrow people — Houses — Habits — 

 Dress — Arms — Dialects — Marriages — Food — Funerals — Superstitions — Flat 

 of Churra — Scenery — Lime and coal — Mamloo — Cliffs — Cascades — Cha- 

 mcerops palm — Jasper-rocks — Flora of Churra — Orchids — Rhododendrons — 

 Pine — Climate — Extraordinary rain-fall — Its effects— Gardens of Lieuts. 

 Raban and Cave — Leave Churra to cross the mountain range — Coal, shale, 

 and under-clay — Kala-panee river — Lailangkot — Luculia Pinceana — Con- 

 glomerate — Surureem wood — Boga-panee river — View of Himalaya — Green- 

 stone — Age of pine-cones — Moflong plants — Coix — Chillong mountain — 

 Extensive view— Road to Syong — Broad valleys — Geology — Plants — Myrung 

 — Granite blocks — Kollong rock — Pine- woods — Features of country — Orchids 

 — Iron forges ........... 272 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



View of Himalaya from the Khasia — Great masses of snow — Chumulari — Donkia 

 — Grasses — Nunklow — Assam valley and Burrampooter — Tropical forest — 

 Bor-panee — Rhododendrons — Wild elephants — Blocks of Syenite — Return to 

 Churra — Coal — August temperature — Leave for Chela — Jasper hill — Birds 

 — Arundina — Habits of leaf-insects — Curious village — Houses — Canoes — 

 Boga-panee river — Jheels — Chattuc — Churra — Leave for Jyntea hills — 

 Trading parties — Dried fish — Cherries — Cinnamon — Fraud — Pea- violet — 

 Nonkreem — Sandstone — Pines — Granite boulders — Iron washing — Forges 

 — Tanks — Siberian Nymphcea — Barren country — Pomrang — Podostemon — 

 Patchouli plant — Mooshye — Enormous stone slabs — Pitcher-plant — Joowye — 

 Cultivation and vegetation — Hydropeltis — Sulky hostess — Nurtiung — Ham- 

 amelis chinensis — Bor-panee river — Sacred grove and gigantic stone struc- 

 tures — Altars — Pyramids, &c. — Origin of names — Vanda ccerulea — 

 Collections — November vegetation — Geology of Khasia — Sandstone — Coal 

 —Lime — Gneiss — Greenstone — Tidal action — Strike of rocks— Comparison 

 with Rajmahal hills and the Himalaya ....... 297 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Boat voyage to Silhet — River — Palms — Teelas — Botany — Fish weirs — Forests of 

 Cachar — Sandal-wood, &c. — Porpoises — Alligators — Silchar — Tigers — Rice- 

 crops — Cookies — Munniporees — Hockey — Varnish — Dance — Nagas — 

 Excursion to Munnipore frontier — Elephant bogged — Bamboos — Cardiop- 

 teris — Climate, &c, of Cachar — Mosquitos — Fall of banks — Silhet — Oaks 

 — Stylidium — Tree-ferns — Chattuc — Megna — Meteorology — Palms — Noa- 

 colly — Salt-smuggling — Delta of Ganges and Megna — Westward progress of 



