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a few gallons per minute ; the temperature at the source is 

 1 1 2° G, and 106° in the bath.* The water has a slightly saline 

 taste ; it is colourless, but emits bubbles of sulphuretted 

 hydrogen gas, blackening silver. A cold spring (tempera- 

 ture 42°) emerged close by, and the Laclioong not ten yards 

 off, was 47° to 50°. A conferva grows in the hot water, 

 and the garnets are worn out of the gneiss rock exposed to 

 its action. 



The Singtam Soubah had been very sulky since leaving 

 Choongtam, and I could scarcely get a drop of milk or a slice 

 of curd here. I had to take him to task severely for sanc- 

 tioning the flogging of one of my men ; a huntsman, who 

 had offered me his services at Choongtam, and who was a 

 civil, industrious fellow, though he had procured me little 

 besides a huge monkey, which had nearly bitten off the head 

 of his best dog. I had made a point of consulting the 

 Soubah before hiring him, for fear of accidents ; but this 

 did not screen him from the jealousy of the Choongtam 

 Jjama, who twice flogged him in the Goompa with rattans 

 (with the Soubah's consent), alleging that he had quitted 

 his service for mine. My people knew of this, but were 

 afraid to tell me, which the poor fellow did himself. 



The Lachoong Phipun visited me on the 7th of Septem- 

 ber : he had officiously been in Tibet to hear what the 

 Tibetan people would say to my going to Donkia, and 

 finding them supremely indifferent, returned to be my 

 guide. A month's provision for ten men having arrived 

 from Dorjiling, I left Yeumtong the following day for 

 Momay Samdong, the loftiest yak grazing station in 

 Sikkim (Palung being too cold for yaks), and within a 

 day's journey of the Donkia pass. 



* This water boiled at 191° 6, the same at which snow-water and that of the 

 river did ; giving an elevation of 11,730 feet. Observations on the mineral con- 

 stituents of the water will be found in the Appendix. 



