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with a guide for the Choonjerma pass, leading to the 

 Yalloong valley, the most easterly in Nepal ; but he recom- 

 mended our not attempting any part of the ascent till the 

 morrow, as it was past 1 p.m., and we should find no 

 camping-ground for half the way up. The villagers gave us 

 the leg of a musk deer, and some red potatos, about as big 

 as walnuts — all they could spare from their winter-stock. 

 With this scanty addition to our stores we started down the 

 valley, for a few miles alternately along flat lake-beds and 

 over moraines, till we crossed the stream from the lateral 

 valley, and ascending a little, camped on its bank, at 11,400 

 feet elevation. 



In the afternoon I botanized amongst the moraines, which 

 were very numerous, and had been thrown down at right- 

 angles to the main valley, which latter being here very 

 narrow, and bounded by lofty precipices, must have stopped 

 the parent glaciers, and effected the heaping of some of 

 these moraines to at least 1000 feet above the river. The 

 general features were modifications of those seen in the 

 Yangma valley, but contracted into a much smaller 

 space. 



The moraines were all accumulated in a sort of delta, 

 through which the lateral river debouched into the 

 Kambachen, and were all deposited more or less parallel 

 to the course of the lateral valley, but curving outwards 

 from its mouth. The village-flat, or terrace, continued 

 level to the first moraine, which had been thrown down on 

 the upper or north side of the lateral valley, on whose 

 steep flanks it abutted, and curving outwards seemed to 

 encircle the village-flat on the south and west; where it 

 dipped into the river. This was crossed at the height of 

 about 100 feet, by a stony path, leading to the bed of 

 the rapid torrent flowing through shingle and boulders, 



