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Chap. XII. 



overwhelming present : he was a most jolly fat monk, shaven 

 and girdled, and' dressed in a scarlet gown : my Lepchas 

 kotowed to him, and he blessed them by the laying on of 

 hands. 



There is a marsh on this spur, full of the common 

 English Acorns Calamus, or sweet-flag, whose roots being 



PEMIONGCHI GOOMPA AND CHAITS. 



very aromatic, are used in griping disorders of men and 

 cattle. Hence we descended suddenly to the Great Rungeet, 

 which we reached at its junction with the Kulhait : the path 

 was very steep and slippery, owing to micaceous rocks, and 

 led along the side of an enormous Mendong,* which ran 



* This remarkable structure, called the Kaysing Mendong, is 200 yards long, 

 10 feet high, and 6 or 8 feet broad : it is built of flat, slaty stones, and both 



