CHAPTER XXI.

Top of Kongra Lama -- Tibet frontier -- Elevation -- View --

Vegetation -- Descent to Tungu -- Tungu-choo -- Ponies -- Kinchinjhow

and Chango-khang mountains -- Palung plains -- Tibetans -- Dogs --

Dingcham province of Tibet -- Inhabitants -- Dresses -- Women's

ornaments -- Blackening faces -- Coral -- Tents -- Elevation of

Palung -- Lama -- Shawl-wool goats -- Shearing -- Siberian plants --

Height of glaciers, and perpetual snow -- Geology -- Plants, and wild

animals -- Marmots -- Insects -- Birds -- Choongtam Lama -- Religious

exercises -- Tibetan hospitality -- _Delphinium_ -- Perpetual snow --

Temperature at Tungu -- Return to Tallum Samdong -- To Lamteng --

Houses -- Fall of barometer -- Cicadas -- Lime deposits -- Landslips

-- Arrival at Choongtam -- Cobra -- Rageu -- Heat of climate --

Velocity and volume of rivers measured -- Leave for Lachoong valley

-- Keadom -- General features of valley -- Lachoong village -- Tunkra

mountain -- Moraines -- Cultivation -- Lachoong Phipun -- Lama

ceremonies beside a sick-bed.

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