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They agreed, and cutting the thick and spongy sheaths of the banana, used them for shoulder-pads: they also wrapped them round the palkee-poles, to ease their aching clavicles. Some curious long low sheds puzzled me very much, and on examining them they proved to be for the growth of Pawn or Betel-pepper, another indication of the moisture of the climate.
The large village, at the time of our visit, was gay with holiday dresses. It is surrounded by trees, chiefly of banyan, jack, mango, peepul, and tamarind: interminable rice-fields extend on all sides, and except bananas, slender betel-nut palms, and sometimes pawn, or betel-pepper, there is little other extensive cultivation.
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.
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