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EAST NEPAL. 



Chap. IX. 



comparatively few trees; for though the silver fir and 

 juniper are both abundant higher up the valley, they have 

 been felled here for building materials, fuel, and export to 

 Tibet. Prom the naked limbs and tall gaunt black trunks of 

 those that remain, stringy masses of bleached lichen (Usnea) 



AVAi.LANCIIOON VILLAGE. 



many feet long, stream in the wind. Both men and women 

 seemed fond of decorating their hair with wreaths of this 

 lichen, which they dye yellow with leaves of Symplocos. 



