CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Tassiding, view of and from — Funereal cypress — Camp at Sunnook — Hot vapours 

 — Lama's house — Temples, decorations, altars, idols, general effect — Chaits 

 — Date of erection — Plundered by Ghorkas — Cross Ratong — Ascend to 

 Pemiongchi — Relation of river-beds to strike of rocks — Slopes of ravines — 

 Pemiongchi, view of — Vegetation — Elevation — Temple, decorations, &c. — 

 Former capital of Sikkim — History of Sikkim — Nightingales — Campbell 

 departs — Tchonpong — Edgev:orilua — Cross Rungbee and Ratong — Hoar- 

 frost on plantains — Yoksun — Walnuts — View — Funereal cypresses — Doobdi 

 — Gigantic cypresses — Temples — Snow-fall — Sikkim, &c. — Toys . . 315 



CHAPTER XV. 



Leave Yoksun for Kinchinjunga — Ascend Ratong valley — Salt-smuggling over 

 Ratong — Landslips — Plants — Buckeem — Blocks of gneiss — Mon Lepcha — 

 View — Weather — View from Gubroo — Kinchinjxinga, tops of — Pundim- 

 cliff — Nursing— Vegetation of Himalaya — Coup d'oeil of Jongri — Route to 

 Yalloong — Arduous route of salt-traders from Tibet — Kinchin, ascent of — 

 Lichens — Surfaces sculptured by snow and ice — Weather at Jongri — Snow 

 — Shades for eyes ........... 340 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Ratong river below Mon Lepcha — Ferns — Vegetation of Yoksun, tropical — 

 Araliacece, fodder for cattle — Rice-paper plant — Geology of Yoksun — Lake 

 — Old temples — Funereal cypresses — Gigantic chait — Altars — Songboom — 

 Weather — Catsuperri — Velocity of Ratong — Worship at Catsuperri lake — 

 Scenery — Willow — Lamas and ecclesiastical establishments of Sikkim — 

 Tengling — Changachelling temples and monks — Portrait of myself on walls 

 — Block of mica-schist — Lingcham Kajee asks for spectacles — Hee-hill — 

 Arrive at Little Rungeet — At Dorjiling — -Its deserted and wintry ap- 

 pearance ............ 353 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Dispatch collections — Acorns — Heat — Punkabaree — Bees — Vegetation — Haze — 

 Titalya — Earthquake — Proceed to Nepal frontier — Terai, geology of — Phy- 

 sical features of Himalayan valleys — Elephants, purchase of, fee. — River-beds 

 — Mechi river — Return to Titalya — Leave for Teesta — Climate of plains — 

 Jeelpigoree — Cooches — Alteration in the appearance of country by fire.-;, &a 

 — Grasses — Bamboos — Cottages — Rajah of Cooch Behar — Condition of people 



