CHAPTER XXII.

Leave Lachoong for Tunkra pass -- Moraines and their vegetation --

Pines of great dimensions -- Wild currants -- Glaciers -- Summit of

pass -- Elevation -- Views -- Plants -- Winds -- Choombi district --

Lacheepia rock -- Extreme cold -- Kinchinjunga -- Himalayan grouse --

Meteorological observations -- Return to Lachoong -- Oaks -- Ascend

to Yeumtong -- Flats and debacles -- Buried pine-trunks -- Perpetual

snow -- Hot springs -- Behaviour of Singtam Soubah -- Leave for Momay

Samdong -- Upper limit of trees -- Distribution of plants -- Glacial

terraces, etc. -- Forked Donkia -- Moutonneed rocks -- Ascent to

Donkia pass -- Vegetation -- Scenery -- Lakes -- Tibet -- Bhomtso --

Arun river -- Kiang-lah mountains -- Yaru-Tsampu river -- Appearance

of Tibet -- Kambajong -- Jigatzi -- Kinchinjhow, and Kinchinjunga --

Chola range -- Deceptive appearance of distant landscape -- Perpetual

snow -- Granite -- Temperatures -- Pulses -- Plants -- Tripe de roche

-- Return to Momay -- Dogs and yaks -- Birds -- Insects -- Quadrupeds

-- Hot springs -- Marmots -- Kinchinjhow glacier.

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