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virulently, the pain only lasts half an hour or so. These, 

 however, with leeches, mosquitos, peepsas, and ticks, 

 sometimes keep the traveller in a constant state of 

 irritation. 



However civilised the Hindoo may be in comparison 

 with the Lepcha, he presents a far less attractive picture to 

 the casual observer ; he comes to your camping- ground, 

 sits down, and stares with all his might, but offers no 

 assistance; if he bring a present at all, he expects a 

 return on the spot, and goes on begging till satisfied. I 

 was amused by the cool way in which my Ghorka guard 

 treated the village lads, when they wanted help in my 

 service, taking them by the shoulder, pulling out their 

 knives for them, placing them in their hands, and setting 

 them to cut down a tree, or to chop firewood, which they 

 seldom refused to do, when a little such douce violence was 

 applied. 



My object being to reach the Tambur, north of the great 

 east and west mountain ridge of Sakkiazung, without 

 crossing the innumerable feeders of the Myong and their 

 dividing spurs, we ascended the north flank of the valley 

 to a long spur from Tonglo, intending to follow winding 

 ridges of that mountain to the sources of the Pemmi at the 

 Phulloot mountains, and thence descend. 



On the 3rd November I encamped on the flank of 

 Tonglo (called Nanki in Nepal), at 9,300 feet, about 

 700 feet below the western summit, which is rocky, and 

 connected by a long flat ridge with that which I had 

 visited in the previous May. The Bhotan coolies behaved 

 worse than ever ; their conduct being in all respects 

 typical of the turbulent, mulish race to which they belong. 

 They had been plundering my provisions as they went 

 along, and neither their Sirdar nor the Ghorka soldiers 



