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Difficulty in procuring leave to enter Sikkim Obtain permission to travel in East Nepal Arrangements Coolies Stores Servants Personal equipment Mode of travelling Leave Dorjiling Goong ridge Behaviour of Bhotan coolies Nepal frontier Myong valley Ilam Sikkim massacre Cultivation Nettles Camp at Nanki on Tonglo Bhotan coolies run away View of Chumulari Nepal peaks to west Sakkiazung Buceros Road to Wallanchoon Oaks Scarcity of water Singular view of mountain-valleys Encampment My tent and its furniture Evening occupations Dunkotah Crossridge of Sakkiazung Yews Silver-firs View of Tambur valley Pemmi river Pebbly terraces Geology Holy springs Enormous trees Luculia gratissima Khawa river, rocks of Arrive at Tambur Shingle and gravel terraces Natives, indolence of Canoe ferry Votive offerings Bad road Temperature, etc.
The skirts of the forest were adorned with numerous jungle flowers, rice crops, blue Acanthaceae and Pavetta, wild cherry-trees covered with scarlet blossoms, and trees of the purple and lilac Bauhinia; while Thunbergia, Convolvulus, and other climbers, hung in graceful festoons from the boughs, and on the dry micaceous rocks the Luculia gratissima, one of our common hot-house ornaments, grew in profusion, its gorgeous heads of blossoms scenting the air.
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