562 Notes upon a Tour in the Sikkim Hvmalayah Mountains. [No. 6, 



£50 sterling (500 rupees), and to it he appeared to attach much 

 value ; the mystic words as written 



W om Intelligence, arm, power ""j 



B^ a The word >-or God, 



Tf hoom The heart or love J 



mean God ; or as Le pere Calmette in his " Lettres edifiantes," Tome 

 14th, page 9, says, " voici ce que j' appris de la religion du Thibet ; 

 " ils appellent, Dieu Koncioser, et ils semblent avoir quelque ide'e 

 " de 1'adorable Trinite car tantot ils le nomment Koncikocick, Dieu 

 " un ; et tantot Koncioksum, Dieu Trin. Ils se servent d'une espece 

 " de chapelet sur lequel ils prononcent ces paroles ; Om, ha, hum. 

 " Lorsqu'on leur en demande 1' explication ils repondent que l Om' 

 " signifie intelligence ou bras, c'est a dire puissance ; que * ha,' est 

 " la parole; que 'hum' est le coeur ou 1' amour et que ces trois mots 

 " signifient Dieu." 



The Sirdar was a boy when Captain Weston came up the Kullaifc 

 in 1822, to settle the boundary between Nepal and Sikkim at the 

 head of the Kullait valley or at the Tumbok Pass. By the treaty 

 of 1815, between Nepal and Sikkim, a large portion of the Sikkim 

 Hills and Morung that had been ceded to the British Government 

 in perpetuity by the Nepaulese Court, and at the same time made 

 over by the British Government in full sovereignty to the Sikkim 

 Eajah, required to have the boundaries settled. 



The Sirdar had also escorted Dr. Hooker from the Tumbok Pass 

 to the Teesta river when returning from his tour in eastern Nepal 

 in 1849, and at last consented to escort us to the summit of the 

 Tumbook Pass. 



Towards the close of the long talk, I made the Sirdar a present of 

 money, and to every man, woman and child, amounting in all to thirty 

 individuals, I distributed two, four and eight-anna silver coins ; and 

 in return, we were presented with a live kid, bamboo shoots, rice and 

 plantains. 



At this spot there are only two houses besides our little granary ; 

 in the house of the Sirdar nearly thirty people were accommodated 

 during the night with food and lodging, men, women, and children 

 all sleeping in the one room that constitutes the entire house. 



