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morning were without clothing, which may account for their restless¬ 
ness. 
Breakfast over, and after attempting to eat some hard cakes made 
of crushed Indian corn, cemented with some farinaceous matter, we 
left for Pemionehee at 8 A. M. ; and after a steep ascent reached the 
Rajah of Sikkim’s unfinished durbar at 9 A. M. This durbar was 
only begun last year, and during the troubles in Sikkim remained 
untouched, and is now in abeyance until the Pemionehee Monastery 
is renovated. At present only two stories have been built. As far 
as it goes, it is a very substantially constructed mansion, 86 X 46 
feet. The walls are 5 feet in thickness and of solid masonrv, and the 
floor of the upper story is supported on massive beams and upright 
posts. It will be a fine building, when completed. 
A further steep ascent of half an hour brought us to the Goompa 
at Pemionehee. This once extensive monastery is now a mass of 
ruins. It was accidentally burnt in October last year. The full 
complement of Llamas is 108. Of this number only twelve were 
present. The remainder were absent in all parts of the country, 
collecting money and materials for the rebuilding of their temple. 
Some of the latter, such as pigments and brushes for the painting of 
the figures of their gods and embellishment of the walls, are to come 
from China, the artists from Thibet, and other materials from Cal¬ 
cutta. We saw the villagers bringing in half wrought logs of wood 
from the surrounding forests. 
It will take two years to rebuild, and probably as many more to 
embellish. The Llamas are very anxious to get it completed, as in 
its present state their occupation is gone. They complained that no¬ 
body visited them, a state of things very detrimental to their finan¬ 
ces. Formerly they received a subsidy of Rs. 30U0 annually from 
the Rajah of Sikkim, but since the Terai lands and the Darjeeling 
hills were annexed to British territory, this bounty has been discon¬ 
tinued. The Llamas are consequently poor, but like the monks of 
old are a fat and jovial race, their sleek faces indicating any thing 
but a poor larder. We put up in a house belonging to one of the 
absent Llamas. The head Llama, who is a perfect type of his holy 
order, treated us to murwa which was very refreshing. He and sever¬ 
al other Llamas were sociable and talkative. They informed us that 
they had two days previously received instructions from the Dewan 
