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TUMLOONG. 



Chap. XXV, 



Dorjiling with a night attack,* as we heard that the 

 Lassoo Kajee was stationed at Namtchi with a party 

 for that purpose, and all communication cut off, except 

 through him. 



* Threats of sacking Dorjiling bad on several previous occasions been made by 

 the Dewan, to the too great alarm of the inhabitants, who were ignorant of the 

 timid and pacific disposition of the Lepchas, and of the fact that there are not 

 fifty muskets in the country, nor twenty men able to use them. On this occasion 

 the threats were coupled with the report that we were murdered, and that the 

 Eajah had asked for 50,000 Tibetan soldiers, who were being marched twenty-five 

 days' journey over passes 15,000 feet high, and deep in snow, and were coming to 

 drive the English out of Sikkim ! I need hardly observe that the Tibetans 

 (who have repeatedly refused to interfere on this side the snows) had no hand 

 in the matter, or that, supposing they could collect that number of men in 

 all Tibet, it would be impossible to feed them for a week, there or in Sikkim. 

 Such reports unfortunately spread a panic in Dorjiling : the guards were called 

 in from all the outposts, and the ladies huddled into one house, whilst the 

 males stood on the defensive ; to the great amusement of the Amlah at Tumloong, 

 whose insolence to us increased proportionally. 



HORNS OF THE SHOWA STAG (CeVVUS WalUckii), A NATIVE OF OHOOMBI IN TIRFT. 



Length of antler, 4 feet fi in. 



