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CHAPTER XX. 



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Camp on Zen. a river — Scenery — Falling rocks — Tukcham mountain — Height of 

 glaciers — Botany — Gigantic rlmbarb — Insects — Storm — Temperature of 

 rivers — Behaviour of Lachen Phipun — Hostile conduct of Bhoteeas — View 

 from mountains above camp — Descend to Zemu Samdong — Vegetation — 

 Letters from Dorjiling — Arrival of Singtam Soubah — Presents from Rajah — 

 Parties collecting arum-roots — Insects — Ascend Lachen river — Thakya-zong 

 — Tallum Samdong village — Cottages— Mountains— Plants — Entomology — 

 Weather — Halo — Diseases — Conduct of Singtam Soubah — -His character and 

 illness — Agrees to take me to Kongra Lama — Tungu — Appearance of country 

 — Houses — Poisoning by arum-roots — Yaks and calves — Tibet ponies — 

 Journey to Kongra Lama — Tibetan tents — -Butter, curds, and churns — 

 Hospitality — Kinchinjhow and Chomiomo — Magnificent scenery — Reach 

 Kongra Lama pass .......... 56 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Top of Kongra Lama — Tibet frontier — Elevation — View — -Vegetation — Descent 

 to Tungu — Tungu-choo — Ponies — Kinchinjhow and Chango-khang mountains 

 — Palung plains — Tibetans — Dogs— Dingcham province of Tibet — Inhabit- 

 ants — Dresses — Women's ornaments — Blackening faces — Coral — Tents — 

 Elevation of Palung — Lama — Shawl-wool goats — Shearing — Siberian plants 

 — Height of glaciers, and perpetual snow — Geology — Plants, and wild 

 animals — Marmots — Insects — Birds — Choongtam Lama — Religious exercises 

 — Tibetan hospitality — Delphinium — Perpetual snow — Temperature at 

 Tungu — Return to Tallum Samdong — To Lamteng — Houses — Fall of baro- 

 meter — Cicadas — Lime deposit — Landslips— Arrival at Choongtam — Cobra 

 — Rageu — Heat of climate — Velocity and volume of rivers measured — Leave 

 for Lachoong valley — Keadom — General features of valley — Lachoong village 

 — Tunkra mountain — Moraines — Cultivation — Lachoong Phipun — Lama 

 ceremonies beside a sick-bed ......... 80 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Leave Lachoong for Tunkra pass — Moraines and their vegetation — Pines of great 

 dimensions — Wild currants — Glaciers — Summit of pass— Elevation — Views 

 — Plants — Winds — Choombi district — Lacheepia rock — Extreme cold — Kin- 

 chinjunga — -Himalayan grouse — Meteorological observations — Return to 

 Lachoong — Oaks — Ascend to Yeumtong — Flats and debacles — Buried pine- 

 trunks — Perpetual snow — Hot springs — Behaviour of Singtam Soubah — 

 Leave for Momay Samdong — Upper limit of trees — Distribution of plants — 

 Glacial terraces, &c. — Forked Donkia — Moutonneed rocks — Ascent to 

 Donkia pass — Vegetation — Scenery — Lakes — Tibet — Bhomtso — Arun river 

 — Kiang-lah mountains — Yaru-Tsampu river — Appearance of Tibet — Kam- 



