CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XL 



Ascend to Nango mountain — Moraines— Glaciers — Vegetation — Rhododendron 

 Hodgsoni — Rocks — Honey-combed surface of snow — Perpetual snow — Top of 

 p ass — View — Elevation — Geology — Distance of sound — Plants — Tempe- 

 rature — Scenery — Cliffs of granite and hurled boulders — Camp — Descent — 

 Pheasants — Larch — Himalayan pines— Distribution of Deodar, note on — 

 Tassichooding temples — Kambachen village — Cultivation— Moraines in 

 valley, distribution of — Picturesque lake-beds, and their vegetation — ■ 

 Tibetan sheep and goats — Cryptogramma crispa — Ascent to Choonjermapass 

 —View of Junnoo — Rocks of its summit — Misty ocean — Nepal peaks — Top 

 of pass — Temperature, and observations — Gorgeous sunset — Descent to 

 Yalloong valley — Loose path — Night scenes — Musk deer . . . .250 



CHAPTER XII. 



Yalloong valley — Find Kanglanamo pass closed — Change route for the southward 

 — Picrorhiza — View of Kubra — Rhododendron Falconeri — Yalloong river — 

 Junction of gneiss and clay-slate — Cross Yalloong range — -View — Descent — 

 Yew — Vegetation— Misty weather — Tongdam village — Khabang — Tropical 

 vegetation — Sidingbah mountain — View of Kinchin junga — Yangyading 

 village — Slopes of hills, and courses of rivers — Khabili valley — Ghorkha 

 Havildar's bad conduct — Ascend Singalelah — Plague of ticks — Short com- 

 mons — Cross Islumbo pass — Boundary of Sikkim — Kulhait valley — 

 Lingcham — Reception by Kajee — Hear of Dr. Campbell's going to meet 

 Rajah — Views in valley — Leave for Teesta river — Tipsy Kajee — Hospitality 

 — Murwa beer — Temples — A corns Calamus — Long Mendong — Burning of 

 dead — Superstitions — Cross Great Rungeet — Boulders, origin of — Purchase 

 of a dog — Marshes — Lamas — Dismiss Ghorkhas — Bhoteea house — Murwa 

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CHAPTER XIII. 



Raklang pass — Uses of nettles — Edible plants — Lepcha war — Do-mani stone — 

 Neongong — Teesta valley — Pony, saddle, &c. — Meet Campbell — Vegetation 

 and scenery — Presents — Visit of Dewan — Characters of Rajah and Dewan — 

 Accounts of Tibet — Lhassa — Siling — Tricks of Dewan — Walk up Teesta — 

 Audience of Rajah — Lamas — Kajees — Tchebu Lama, his character and posi- 

 tion — Effects of interview — Heir-apparent — Dewan's house — Guitar — 

 Weather — Fall of river — Tibet officers — Gigantic trees — Neongong lake 

 — Mainom, ascent of — Vegetation — Camp on snow — Silver-firs — View 

 from top — Kinchin, &c. — Geology — Vapours — Sunset effect — Elevation — 

 Temperature, &c. — Lamas of Neongong — Temples — Religious festival — 

 Bamboo, flowering — Recross pass of Raklang — Numerous temples, villages, 

 &c. — Domestic animals — Descent to Great Rungeet ..... 292 



