through the ill will of the persons who executed the
orders of their superiors, and who had been punished
by Dr. Campbell for crimes committed against the
British and Nepalese governments. The circumstances
of this outrage were misunderstood at the
time; its instigators were supposed to be Chinese;
its perpetrators Tibetans; and we, the offenders, were
assumed to have thrust ourselves into the country,
without authority from our own government, and
contrary to the will of the Sikkim Bajah; who was
imagined to be a tributary of China, and protected by
that nation, and to be under no obligation to the East
Indian government.
Dr. T. Thomson joined me in Doijiling towards the
end of 1849, after the completion of his arduous
journeys in the North-West Himalaya and Tibet, and
we spent the year 1850 in travelling and collecting in
the Khasia mountains; returning to England together
in 1851.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE AT PEMIONGCHI . . FRONTISPIECE. p a ? e
OLD TAMARIND T R E E S .................................................................................. . 1 5
CROSSING THE SOANE, WITH THE KYMORE HILLS IN THE DISTANCE 40
EQUATORIAL SUN-DIAL..................................................................................................................6 8
EQUINOCTIAL S U N -D I A L ............................................................................................... . 6 9
BRASS AZIMUTH C I R C L E . . 70
MONGHYR ON THE GANGES, WITH THE CURRUCKPORE HILLS IN
THE DISTANCE . . . . . . 80
PUNKABAREE BUNGALOW AND BASE OP THE HIMALAYA . . . 94
LEPCHA GIRL AND BOODHIST L A M A ........................................................................... 119
LEPCHA AMULET . . . . . . . . . 132
PINES (PINUS LONGIFOLIA), RUNGEET VALLEY . . . . 139
CANE B R I D G E .................................................................................. . . . 141
LEPCHA WATER-CARRIER WITH A BAMBOO CHUNGI . . . 147
CLASPING ROOTS OF W I G H T I A . 155
SIMONBONG TEMPLE . 162
TRUMPET MADE OF A HUMAN THIGH-BONE . . . . . 163
TIBETAN A M U L E T ............................................................................................................ . 166
TIBETAN O H A RM -B O X .............................................................................................................. 188
TAMBUR RIVER AT THE LOWER LIMIT OF FIRS . . . . 197
WALLANOHOON V I L L A G E .................................................................................................200
DEMON’S H E A D ................................................................................. ............... . 2 1 6
ANCIENT MORAINES IN THE YANGMA VALLEY . . . . 224
LOOKING ACROSS THE YANGMA VALLEY . . . . . 227