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After another ordeal of powder, singing, dancing, and suffocation, our share in the Hooli ended; and having been promised elephants for the following morning, we bade a cordial farewell to our engaging little hosts and their staid old governor. On the 10th of March we were awakened at an early hour by a heavy thunder-storm from the south-west.
At Jeelpigoree we were waited upon by the Dewan, who governs the district for the Rajah, a boy about ten years old, whose estates are locked up during the trial of an interminable suit for the succession, that has been instituted against him by a natural son of the late Rajah: we found the Dewan to be a man of intelligence, who promised us elephants as soon as the great Hooli festival, now commenced, should be over.
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 Khersiong To Dorjiling Vegetation Geology Folded quartz-beds Spheres of feldspar Lime deposits.
Some slovenly Natch-girls were dancing before us, kicking up clouds of dust, and singing or rather bawling through their noses, the usual indelicate hymns in honour of the Hooli festival; there were also fiddlers, cutting uncouth capers in rhythm with the dancers.
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