Himalayan Journals — Volume 1 / Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

by Joseph Dalton Hooker

CHAPTER II.

Doomree — Vegetation of table-land — Lieutenant Beadle — Birds — Hot springs of Soorujkoond — Plants near them — Shells in them — Cholera-tree — Olibanum — Palms, form of — Dunwah pass — Trees, native and planted — Wild peacock — Poppy fields — Geography and geology of Behar and Central India — Toddy-palm — Ground, temperature of — Baroon — Temperature of plants — Lizard — Cross the Soane — Sand, ripple-marks on — Kymore hills — Ground, temperature of — Limestone — Rotas fort and palace — Nitrate of lime — Change of climate — Lime stalagmites, enclosing leaves — Fall of Soane — Spiders, etc. — Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley — Hardwickia binata — Bhel fruit — Dust-storm — Alligator — Catechu — Cochlospermum — Leaf-bellows — Scorpions — Tortoises — Florican — Limestone spheres — Coles — Tiger-hunt — Robbery.

CHAPTER III.

Ek-powa Ghat — Sandstones — Shahgunj — Table-land, elevation, etc.
— Gum-arabic — Mango — Fair — Aquatic plants — Rujubbund —
Storm — False sunset and sunrise — Bind hills — Mirzapore —
Manufactures, imports, etc. — Climate — Thuggee — Chunar —
Benares — Mosque — Observatory — Sar-nath — Ghazeepore —
Rose-gardens — Manufactory of attar — Lord Cornwallis' tomb —
Ganges, scenery and natural history of — Pelicans — Vegetation —
Insects — Dinapore — Patna — Opium godowns and manufacture —
Mudar, white and purple — Monghyr islets — Hot springs of
Seetakoond — Alluvium of Ganges — Rocks of Sultun-gunj —
Bhaugulpore — Temples of Mt. Manden — Coles and native tribes —
Bhaugulpore rangers — Horticultural gardens.

CHAPTER IV.

Leave Bhaugulpore — Kunker — Colgong — Himalaya, distant view of
— Cosi, mouth of — Difficult navigation — Sand-storms —
Caragola-Ghat — Purnea — Ortolans — Mahanuddy, transport of
pebbles, etc. — Betel-pepper, cultivation of — Titalya — Siligoree
— View of outer Himalaya — Terai — Mechis — Punkabaree — Foot of
mountains — Ascent to Dorjiling — Cicadas — Leeches — Animals —
Kursiong, spring vegetation of — Pacheem — Arrive at Dorjiling —
Dorjiling, origin and settlement of — Grant of land from Rajah —
Dr. Campbell appointed superintendent — Dewan, late and present —
Aggressive conduct of the latter — Increase of the station — Trade
— Titalya fair — Healthy climate for Europeans and children —
Invalids, diseases prejudicial to.

CHAPTER V.

View from Mr. Hodgson's of range of snowy mountains — Their extent and elevation — Delusive appearance of elevation — Sinchul, view from and vegetation of — Chumulari — Magnolias, white and purple — Rhododendron Dalhousiae, arboreum and argentium — Natives of Dorjiling — Lepchas, origin, tradition of flood, morals, dress, arms, ornaments, diet — Cups, origin and value — Marriages — Diseases — Burial — Worship and religion — Bijooas — Kumpa Rong, or Arrat — Limboos, origin, habits, language, etc. — Moormis — Magras — Mechis — Comparison of customs with those of the natives of Assam, Khasia, etc.

CHAPTER VI.

Excursion from Dorjiling to Great Rungeet — Zones of vegetation — Tree-ferns — Palms, upper limit of — Leebong, tea plantations — Ging — Boodhist remains — Tropical vegetation — Pines — Lepcha clearances — Forest fires — Boodhist monuments — Fig — Cane-bridge and raft over Rungeet — Sago-palm — India-rubber — Yel Pote — Butterflies and other insects — Snakes — Camp — Temperature and humidity of atmosphere — Junction of Teesta and Rungeet — Return to Dorjiling — Tonglo, excursion to — Bamboo, flowering — Oaks — Gordonia — Maize, hermaphrodite flowered — Figs — Nettles — Peepsa — Simonbong, cultivation at — European fruits at Dorjiling-Plains of India.