CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Difficulty in procuring leave to enter Sikkim — Obtain permission to travel in 

 East Nepal— Arrangements — Coolies — Stores — Servants — Personal equip- 

 ment — Mode of travelling — Leave Dorjiling — Goong ridge — Behaviour of 

 Bhotan coolies — Nepal frontier — Myong valley — Ham — Sikkim massacre — 

 Cultivation — Nettles — Camp at Nanki on Tonglo — Bhotan coolies run away 

 — View of Chumulari — Nepal peaks to west— Sakkiazong — Buceros — Road 

 to Wallanchoon — Oaks — Scarcity of water — Singular view of mountain- 

 valleys — Encampment — My tent and its furniture — Evening occupations — 

 Dunkotah — Cross ridge of Sakkiazong — Yews — Silver-firs — View of Tambur 

 valley — Pemmi river — Pebbly terraces — Geology — Holy springs — Enormous 

 trees — Luculia gratissima — Khawa river, rocks of — Arrive at Tambur — 

 Shingle and gravel terraces — Natives, indolence of — Canoe ferry — Votive 

 offerings — Bad road — Temperature, &c. — Chingtam village, view from — 

 Mywa river and Ghiola — House — Boulders — Chain-bridge — Meepo, arrival 

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CHAPTER IX. 



Leave Mywa — Suspension bridge — Landslips — Vegetation — Slope of river-bed — 

 Bees' nests — Glacial phenomena — Tibetans, clothing, ornaments, amulets, 

 salutation, children, dogs — Last Limboo village, Taptiatok — Beautiful 

 scenery — Tibet village of Lelyp — Opuntia — Edgeworthia — Crab-apple — 

 Chameleon and porcupine — Praying -machine — A hies Brunoniana — European 

 plants— Grand scenery— Arrive at Wallanchoon — Scenery around — Trees — 

 Tibet houses — Manis and Mendongs — Tibet household— Food — Tea-soup — 

 Hospitality — Yaks and Zobo, uses and habits of — Bhoteeas — Yak-hair tents 

 — Guobah of Walloong — Jatamansi — Obstacles to proceeding — Climate and 

 weather— Proceed — Rhododendrons, &c. — Lichens — Poa annua and Shep- 

 herd's purse — Tibet camp — Tuquoroma — Scenery of pass — Glaciers and 

 snow — Summit — Plants, woolly, &c. . . . . . . .199 



CHAPTER X. 



Return from Wallanchoon pass — Procure a bazaar at village — Dance of Lamas — 

 Blackening face, Tibetan custom of — Temple and convent — Leave for 

 Kanglachem pass — Send part of party back to Dorjiling — Yangma Guola — 

 Drunken Tibetans — Guobah of Wallanchoon — Camp at foot of Great Moraine 

 — View from top — Geological speculations — Height of moraines — Cross di-y 

 lake-bed — Glaciers — More moraines — Terraces — 'Yangma temples — Jos, 

 books and furniture — Peak of Nango — Lake — Arrive at village — Cultivation 

 — Scenery — Potatos — State of my provisions — Pass through village — Gigantic 

 boulders — Terraces — Wild sheep — Lake-beds — Sun's power — Piles of gravel 

 and detritus — Glaciers and moraines — Pabuk, elevation of — Moonlight scene 

 — Return to Yangma — Temperature, &c. — Geological causes of phenomena 

 in valley — Scenery of valley on descent . . . . . . . 22 1 



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