CHAPTER XII. 



Yalloong valley — Find Kanglanamo pass closed — Change route for the southward 

 — Picrorhiza — View of Kubra — Rhododendron Falconeri — Yalloong river — 

 Junction of gneiss and clay-slate — Cross Yalloong range — View — Descent — 

 Yew — Vegetation — Misty weather — Tongdam village — Khabang — Tropical 

 vegetation — Sidingbah Mountain — View of Kinchinjunga — Yangyading village 

 — Slopes of bills, and courses of rivers — Khabili valley — Ghorkha Havildar's 

 bad conduct — Ascend Singalelah — Plague of ticks — Short commons — Cross 

 Islumbo pass — Boundary of Sikkim — Kulhait valley — Lingcham — Keception 

 by Kajee — Hear of Dr. Campbell's going to meet Rajah — Views in valley — 

 Leave for Teesta river — Tipsy Kajee — Hospitality — Murwa beer — Temples 

 — Acorus Ccdamus — Long Mendong — Burning of dead — Superstitions — 

 Cross Great Rungeet — Boulders, origin of — Purchase of a dog — Marshes — 

 Lamas — Dismiss Ghorkhas — Bhoteea house — Murwa beer. 



On arriving at the bottom we found a party who were 

 travelling with sheep laden with salt ; they told us that 

 the Yalloong village, which lay up the valley on the route 

 to the Kanglanamo pass (leading over the south shoulder 

 of Kubra into Sikkim) was deserted, the inhabitants 

 having retired after the October fall of snow to Yankutang, 

 two marches down ; also that the Kanglanamo pass was 

 impracticable, being always blocked up by the October fall. 

 I was, therefore, reluctantly obliged to abandon the plan of 

 pursuing that route to Sikkim, and to go south, following 

 the west flank of Singalelah to the first of the many passes 

 over it which I might find open. 



These people were very civil, and gave me a handful of 

 the root of one of the many bitter herbs called in Bengal 



