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Mighty Kinchinjanga The inconceivable splendours of a Himalayan sunrise The last Indian telegraph-office The irrepressible British Tommy An improvised garden An improvised Durbar Hall A splendid ceremony A native dinner The disguised Europeans Our shocking table-manners Incidents Two impersonations; one successful, the other reverse I come off badly Indian jugglers The rope-trick The juggler, the rope, and the boy An inexplicable incident A performing cobra scores a success Ceylon "Devil Dancers" Their performance The Temple of the Tooth The uncovering of the Tooth Details concerning An abominable libel Tea and coffee Peradeniya Gardens The upas tree of Java Colombo an Eastern Clapham Junction The French lady and the savages The small Bermudian and the inhabitants of England.
I saw this sunrise daily for a week, and its glories seemed greater every day. For some reason that I cannot explain it always recalled to me a passage in Job xxxviii, "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." No one has ever yet succeeded in scaling Kinchinjanga, and I do not suppose that any one ever will.
During our early morning walks through the jungle-tracts of Assam, on clear days we occasionally caught a brief glimpse of a glittering white cone on the horizon. This was mighty Kinchinjanga, the second highest mountain in the world, distant then from us I should be afraid to say how many miles. To see Kinchinjanga to perfection, one must go to Darjeeling.
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