Jan. 11, 1858.] WAUGH ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. 109 
its curious shape and for its immense height : its name none of my 
party knew, nor have I yet succeeded in obtaining the name. The 
peak is a hollow crater-like mountain, probably 27,000 feet in 
height, with a long table mountain attached to it, both covered 
with glaciers. To the west of this great mountain are fine distinct 
peaks separating the large mountain from a hollow shell-like and 
perpendicular mountain about 26,000 feet in height.” — (‘ Notes 
upon a Tour in the Sikkim Himalaya Mountains,’ J. A. S., No. 8, 
1853.) The mountain herein alluded to is our XIII., the height 
of which is 27,779 feet, Mount Everest being depressed nearly 14 
minutes below XIII. 
From the foregoing I am led to infer that Mr. Hodgson has pro- 
bably mistaken one peak for another, more especially since the 
country is said to be very polyglottic ; in fact, Mr. Hodgson himself 
throws some doubt on the identity of Mount Everest with Deodanga, 
or Bhairavathan, or Bhairava Langur, or Gnalthamthangla, as 
his own expression, “ being probably the nameless peak which 
Colonel Waugh conjectures may rival Kanchanjinga in height,” 
evidently shows. The following extract from an interesting account 
of the ascent of the mountain Sumeru Parbut by Captain Robertson, 
given in the Report of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science for 1855, will serve to show how liable we are to 
fall into mistakes in identifying a group of peaks even when in 
their immediate neighbourhood : — “ On the right of the glacier rose 
the three great Jumnotri peaks, designated in sheet 65 of the 
Trigonometrical Survey of India, black E, great E, and little E, 
the altitudes of which as given in map are 21,155, 20,916, and 
20,122 feet. The peaks designated in the Trigonometrical Survey 
great E and little E, are the two summits of a mountain which the 
natives call Bunderpunch. On the left the glacier was bounded 
by a wall of precipices, terminating in the lofty snow-covered peak 
of Sumeru Parbut. The height of this peak is not given in the 
survey map, but from its appearance, as compared with that of the 
measured peaks, and also from the height it rises above the limits 
of perpetual snow, I should estimate its altitude at about 18,000 
feet. The altitude of Bunderpunch-ke-ghattee I estimated at about 
16,000 feet. 
“ In making my agreement with the Brahmin I was under the 
impression that Sumeru Parbut was one of the measured peaks, and 
it was not until I reached Bunderpunch-ke-ghattee that I discovered 
my mistake.” 
W. H. Scott, 
Draughtsman, Surveyor-General’s Field Office. 
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