238 DORJILING. Chap. XXVI. 



where I was taken for a ghost, and received with shouts of 

 welcome by my kind friend and his guest Dr. Thomson, 

 who had been awaiting my arrival for upwards of a 

 month. 



Thus terminated our Sikkim captivity, and my last 

 Himalayan exploring journey, which in a botanical and 

 geographical point of view had answered my purposes 

 beyond my most sanguine expectations, though my collec- 

 tions had been in a great measure destroyed by so many 

 untoward events. It enabled me to survey the whole 

 country, and to execute a map of it, and Campbell had 

 further gained that knowledge of its resources which the 

 British government should all along have possessed, as the 

 protector of the Rajah and his territories. 



It remains to say a few words of the events that suc- 

 ceeded our release, in so far as they relate to my connection 

 with them. The Dewan moved from Cheadam to Namtchi, 

 immediately opposite Dorjiling, where he remained 

 throughout the winter. The supreme government of 

 Bengal demanded of the Rajah that he should deliver up 

 the most notorious offenders, and come himself to Dor- 

 jiling, on pain of an army marching to Tumloong to 

 enforce the demand ; a step which would have been easy, 

 as there were neither troops, arms, ammunition, nor other 

 means of resistance, even had there been the inclination 

 to stop us, which w T as not the case. The Rajah would in 

 all probability have delivered himself up at Tumloong, 

 throwing himself on our mercy, and the army would 

 have sought the culprits in vain, both the spirit and the 

 power to capture them being wanting on the part of the 

 people and their ruler. 



The Rajah expressed his willingness, but pleaded his 

 inability to fulfil the demand, whereupon the threat was 



