JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. VII.— 1852. 



Diary of a Journey through Sikim to the Frontiers of Thibet. — By 

 Dr. A. Campbell, Superintendent of Darjeeling — with a Map. 

 (Communicated by Sir James Colvile, Kt.) 



(Continued from page 501.) 



19th October, Cholamoo Lake, North-East Bank. 



Thermometer fell during the night to 14°, radiating do. to 9° ; a 

 calm night ; south-easterly squalls : this morning, bright sunshine, and 

 the clearest of blue skies. All my people are ill with head-ache and 

 vomiting, and quite knocked up from the continued effects of this 

 elevated atmosphere. Elevation of this place 1 7,500 feet, which is the 

 highest encampment we have had. My eyes are inflamed, and the skin 

 is peeling off my face from the excessively sharp wind and brilliant sun 

 of yesterday ; my nose bled profusely this morning ; but I have 

 escaped head-ache and other painful symptoms, although we were 

 all day yesterday at elevations of 18,000 feet, and higher. The 

 direction of the Cholamoo Lake is north-east and south-west ; it is 

 about two miles long and half a mile broad ; sloping banks with occa- 

 sional rocky belts and swamps characterise the west side. The east 

 side is flat, dry, rocky and barren ; a rusty red-coloured rocky-terraced 

 spur from the east end of Kanchanjhow bounds the lake to the west, 

 and divides it from the Yeumtso lake. The most easterly source of 

 the Lachen runs from the east of the Cholamoo Lake ; it rises in a 



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