CHAPTER X. 



Return from Wallanchoon pass — Procure a bazaar at village — Dance of Lamas — 

 Blacking face, Tibetan custom of — Temple and convent — Leave for Kanglachem 

 pass — Send part of party back to Dorjiling — Yangma Guola — Drunken 

 Tibetans — Guobah of Wallanchoon — Camp at foot of Great Moraine — View 

 from top — Geological speculations — Height of moraines — Cross dry lake-bed 

 — Glaciers — More moraines — Terraces — Yangma temples — Jos, books and 

 furniture— Peak of Nango — Lake — Arrive at village —Cultivation — Scenery 

 — Potatos — State of my provisions — Pass through village —Gigantic boulders 

 Terraces — Wild sheep — Lake-beds — Sun's power — Piles of gravel and detritus 

 — Glaciers and moraines — Pabuk, elevation of — Moonlight scene — Return to 

 Yangma— Temperature, &c. — Geological causes of phenomena in valley — 

 Scenery of valley on descent. 



I returned to the village of Wallanchoon, after collecting 

 all the plants I could around my camp ; amongst them 

 a common-looking dock abounded in the spots which the 

 yaks had frequented. 



The ground was covered, as with heather, with abundance 

 of creeping dwarf juniper, Andromeda, and dwarf rhodo- 

 dendron. On arriving at the village, I refused to receive 

 the Guobah, unless he opened a bazaar at daylight on the 

 following morning, where my people might purchase food ; 

 and threatened to bring charges against him before his Rajah. 

 At the same time I arranged for sending the main body of 

 my party down the Tambur, and so back to Sikkim, 

 whilst I should, with as few as possible, visit the Kangla- 

 chem (Tibetan) pass in the adjacent valley to the 



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