CHAPTER XII.

Yalloong valley — Find Kanglanamo pass closed — Change route for the southward — Picrorhiza — View of Kubra — Rhododendron Falconeri — Yalloong river — Junction of gneiss and clay-slate — Cross Yalloong range — Yiew — Descent — Yew — Vegetation — Misty weather — Tongdam village — Khabang — Tropical vegetation — Sidingbah mountain — View of Kinchinjunga — Yangyading village — Slopes of hills, and courses of rivers — Khabili valley — Ghorkha Havildar's bad conduct — Ascend Singalelah — Plague of ticks — Short commons — Cross Islumbo pass — Boundary of Sikkim — Kulhait valley — Lingcham — Reception by Kajee — Hear of Dr. Campbell's 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.