500 A Journey through Sikim. [No. 6" 



grazed and moved onwards whichever way he did. There was one 

 remarkably fine ram among them ; his fleece reached the ground, his 

 back was painted bright red. The wool of these sheep is of a superior 

 sort. The flesh we ate was flavourless, but short in the grain and 

 tender. The flock belonged to Geree ; I believe I never saw any one 

 look so much surprised as the shepherd did when I rode up to him. 



Ther. at Yeumtso, 6 p'. m, 36°, at 8 p. m. 29°, radiating do. 20°. 

 October \Sth. 



6 a. m. Yeumtso. The Ther. fell during the night to 5°, radiating 

 do. to 2° . Water in vessels on the tent table frozen to a mass of ice. 

 Ther. at sunrise 15°. We movq. our camp to-day to the Cholamoo 

 Lake, where we shall join it in the evening, going in the mean time to 

 Bhomtso mountain five miles north of this, and 1,400 feet higher, 

 total elevation about 18,000 feet. Hooker wishes to amend his geo- 

 graphy by a careful round of bearings, and especially to see to the 

 position of Chumulari. Reached Bhomtso or Bhomcha — elevation 

 18,500 feet — at 10 a. m. followed by a detachment of the Thibetan 

 guard, who were very anxious for us to go direct to our camp. They 

 felt the cold excessively, and finding us unwilling to accompany them 

 set off themselves, leaving us to our own devices. Ther. at 11 a. m. 

 44° , Wet Bulb 22° , and strong breeze from the north-west cuttingly 

 cold. No sickness or head-ache to-day, but walking brings on labori- 

 ous breathing. We remained on Bhomtso till the afternoon, Hooker 

 taking bearings with the Theodolite, and observations with the Barome- 

 ter, the boiling point, the Wet Bulb, &c. &c. and had indeed a rare 

 day of it. A great extent of Thibet was laid out before us without a 

 cloud to obscure the view, and it was equally fine to the south. In 

 the far south-west forty miles off we had a view of Kanchanjinga still 

 the king of all the Sikim mountains, its north-east aspect being no 

 less grand from Thibet than its southern one is from Darjeeling, al- 

 though from the former it appears hemmed in by numerous lateral 

 peaks and mountains of perpetual snow. Immediately south-west- 

 south and south-east of us was a noble line of mountains formed by 

 Chomiomo, Kanchanjhow and Donkiah, all 23,000 feet or more,* and 

 not more than six miles lineal distance. To the east and in line with 

 the above, we saw a great range of perpetual snow mountains indicated 



* Donkiah misnamed " Powhunry," by Col. Waugh is measured 23,000. 



