254 TO DAKJILING : FIRST HIMALAYAN JOURNEY 
rupees, was too little. He attacked Dr. Campbell, the 
Political ' Resident, for allowing the poor Prince to be so 
shabbily treated' by England, voted the 3000 to be doubled, 
without any sufficient reason, and did this without even 
stipulating that the Rajah shall behave more civilly to 
Europeans. Campbell, who ought to have flung the repri- 
mand back in the Governor's teeth and complained of the 
unjust treatment to the Board, took it all quietly, doubled 
the Rajah's revenue, and thus threw away a fulcrum which 
would have moved the Himalayah to within our reach. 
The Rajah is consequently more persuaded than ever of our 
foolishness and desire to take over his valued kingdom (of 
which we would not accept the gift). Is it not incredible 
that a man can be so weak as to fear the very power which 
placed him on his throne and to this day maintains him 
thereon from the being trisected, as Poland was, by the 
Goorkhas, Bhotanese, and Thibetans, any one of which would 
swallow him up in an horn- ? Lord D. has plenty of time now 
to think of the affair as I cannot go till October, the 
rains and ,the unhealthiness of the intervening valleys both 
precluding the attempt. 
Six months passed before Sikkim, after repeated refusals, 
conceded a reluctant assent to the direct demands of the 
Governor- General. The chief expedition through Sikkim 
took place in the following year, albeit hampered by the 
obstructive devices of the Rajah's Dewan, which were suc- 
cessively overcome by Hooker's good-humoured firmness and 
amusing bluff. 
But the partial permission for the autumn of 1848, followed 
by efforts to take away with the left hand what had been 
granted by the right, brought indirectly a still greater triumph. 
Thanks to the goodwill of the famous Jung Bahadur, Xepaul 
opened her eastern valleys to the traveller, and the Ghurka 
escort, disgusted by the petty machinations of the Sikkimese 
to prevent Hooker from ever reaching the northerly point at 
which he was to enter Nepaul, undertook to lead him the whole 
way through then: own territory to the Tibetan Passes on 
the west of the Kinchinjunga group, through country never 
before and never since traversed by any European. 
