CHAPTER IX. 



Leave My wa — 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 — Abies 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 — Jhatamansi — Obstacles to proceeding — 

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

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

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



On the 18th November, we left Mywa Guola, and con- 

 tinued up the river to the village of Wallanchoon or 

 Walloong, which was reached in six marches. The snowy 

 peak of Junnoo (alt. 25,312 feet) forms a magnificent 

 feature from this point, seen up the narrow gorge of the 

 river, bearing N.N.E. about thirty miles. I crossed 

 the Mewa, an affluent from the north, by another 

 excellent suspension bridge. In these bridges, the principal 

 chains are clamped to rocks on either shore, and the sus- 

 pended loops occur at intervals of eight to ten feet ; the 

 single sal-plank laid on these loops swings terrifically, and 

 the handrails not being four feet high, the sense of insecurity 

 is very great. 



The Wallanchoon road follows the west bank, but the 

 bridge above having been carried away, we crossed by a 



