Himalayan Journals, vol 1 | Page 7

going to meet Rajah -- Views in valley -- Leave for Teesta river --
Tipsy Kajee -- Hospitality -- Murwa beer -- Temples -- Acorus
Calamus -- Long Mendong -- Burning of dead -- Superstitions -- Cross
Great Rungeet -- Boulders, origin of -- Purchase of a dog -- Marshes --
Lamas -- Dismiss Ghorkhas -- Bhoteea house -- Murwa beer.

CHAPTER XIII.
Raklang pass -- Uses of nettles -- Edible plants -- Lepcha war --
Do-mani stone -- Neongong -- Teesta valley -- Pony, saddle, etc. --
Meet Campbell -- Vegetation and scenery -- Presents -- Visit of Dewan
-- Characters of Rajah and Dewan -- Accounts of Tibet -- Lhassa --
Siling -- Tricks of Dewan -- Walk up Teesta -- Audience of Rajah --
Lamas -- Kajees -- Tchebu Lama, his character and position -- Effects
of interview -- Heir-apparent -- Dewan's house -- Guitar -- Weather --
Fall of river -- Tibet officers -- Gigantic trees -- Neongong lake --
Mainom, ascent of -- Vegetation -- Camp on snow -- Silver-firs -- View
from top -- Kinchin, etc. -- Geology -- Vapours -- Sunset effect --
Elevation -- Temperature, etc. -- Lamas of Neongong -- Temples --
Religious festival Bamboo, flowering -- Recross pass of Raklang --
Numerous temples, villages, etc. -- Domestic animals -- Descent to
Great Rungeet.

CHAPTER XIV.
Tassiding, view of and from -- Funereal cypress -- Camp at Sunnook --
Hot vapours -- Lama's house -- Temples, decorations, altars, idols,
general effect -- Chaits -- Date of erection -- Plundered by Ghorkas --
Cross Ratong -- Ascend to Pemiongehi -- Relation of river-beds to

strike of rocks -- Slopes of ravines -- Pemiongehi, view of -- Vegetation
-- Elevation -- Temple, decorations, etc. -- Former capital of Sikkim --
History of Sikkim -- Nightingales -- Campbell departs -- Tchonpong --
Edgeworthia -- Cross Rungbee and Ratong -- Hoar-frost on plantains --
Yoksun -- Walnuts -- View -- Funereal cypresses -- Doobdi -- Gigantic
cypresses -- Temples -- Snow-fall -- Sikkim, etc. -- Toys.

CHAPTER XV.
Leave Yoksun for Kinchinjunga -- Ascend Ratong valley --
Salt-smuggling over Ratong -- Landslips -- Plants -- Buckeem --
Blocks of gneiss -- Mon Lepcha -- View -- Weather -- View from
Gubroo -- Kinchinjunga, tops of -- Pundimcliff -- Nursing --
Vegetation of Himalaya -- Coup d'oeil of Jongri -- Route to Yalloong --
Arduous route of salt-traders from Tibet -- Kinchin, ascent of --
Lichens -- Surfaces sculptured by snow and ice -- Weather at Jongri --
Snow -- Shades for eyes.

CHAPTER XVI.
Ratong river below Mon Lepcha -- Ferns -- Vegetation of Yoksun,
tropical -- Araliaceae, fodder for cattle -- Rice-paper plant -- Geology
of Yoksun -- Lake -- Old temples -- Funereal cypresses -- Gigantic
chart -- Altars -- Songboom -- Weather -- Catsuperri -- Velocity of
Ratong -- Worship at Catsuperri lake -- Scenery -- Willow -- Lamas
and ecclesiastical establishments of Sikkim -- Tengling --
Changachelling temples and monks -- Portrait of myself on walls --
Block of mica-schist -- Lingcham Kajee asks for spectacles -- Hee-hill
-- Arrive at Little Rungeet -- At Dorjiling -- Its deserted and wintry
appearance.

CHAPTER XVII.
Dispatch collections -- Acorns -- Heat -- Punkabaree -- Bees --
Vegetation -- Haze -- Titalya -- Earthquake -- Proceed to Nepal frontier
-- Terai, geology of -- Physical features of Himalayan valleys --
Elephants, purchase of, etc. -- River-beds -- Mechi river -- Return to
Titalya -- Leave for Teesta -- Climate of plains -- Jeelpigoree --
Cooches -- Alteration in the appearance of country by fires, etc. --
Grasses -- Bamboos -- Cottages -- Rajah of Cooch Behar -- Condition
of people -- Hooli festival -- Ascend Teesta -- Canoes -- Cranes --
Forest -- Baikant-pore -- Rummai -- Religion -- Plants at foot of
mountains -- Exit of Teesta -- Canoe voyage down to Rangamally --
English genera of plants -- Birds -- Beautiful scenery -- Botanizing on
elephants -- Willow -- Siligoree -- Cross Terai -- Geology -- Iron --
Lohar-ghur -- Coal and sandstone beds -- Mechi fisherman -- Hailstorm
-- Ascent to Kursiong -- To Dorjiling -- Vegetation -- Geology --
Folded quartz-beds -- Spheres of feldspar -- Lime deposits.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS.
Fig. I. The Dhak, _Butea frondosa,_ and _Cochlospermum
gossypium,_ with the Kymore Hills in the background. p.53 Fig. II.
View of Kinchinjunga from Mr. Hodgson's bungalow at Dorjiling,
from a sketch by W. Tayler, Esq., B.C.S. Frontispiece. Fig. III. From
Chingtam, looking up the Tambur Valley. p.196 Fig. VI. Nango
mountain, from the summit of the great moraine in Yangma Valley,
looking eastward. p.232 Fig. V. Junnoo mountain from the Choonjerma
Pass. p.264
WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Fig. 1. Old tamarind trees. p.17 Fig. 2. Crossing