CHAPTEK XYI 
LAST DAYS IN SIKKIM 
Punitive measures against the Eajah were not very ad- 
mirably carried out. Instead of the friend^ chiefs being 
invited to DarjiUng, the Rajah was bidden to come in and 
surrender, bringing the guilty parties with him, on pain of 
invasion. But when he failed to comply, and indeed to 
bring in the guilty was beyond his power, the threat was not 
carried out. 
The army camped for some weeks on the north bank of 
the Great Eungeet, the Dewan with his handful of followers 
being on the hill not three hours away, and finally with- 
drew, while for penalty the fertile Terai lands, the British 
gift to the Piajah, were resumed, his pension withdrawn, 
and Southern Sikkim annexed. The fidehty of the Tchebu 
Lama was happily rewarded with money and a grant of land 
at Darjiling. 
From his intimate knowledge of the country. Hooker was 
in a position to give sound counsel when asked, and to perceive, 
if he could not always correct, various false steps taken by 
the temporary administration ; but he intervened as little as 
might be in matters which were not his proper concern, and 
his chief satisfaction lay in the eventual release of one of his 
men who was reported to have been murdered, and in the fact 
that thanks to his clear account of the affair. Lord Dalhousie 
acquitted Campbell of blame, and re-appointed him with wider 
powers than before. 
For a short time the military preparations threatened to 
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