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Title : Himalayan journals : notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains, &c.. Vol. 2 / by Joseph Dalton Hooker,...
Author : Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Publisher : J. Murray (London)
Date of publication : 1855
Subject : Plantes -- Himalaya
Subject : Himalaya -- Descriptions et voyages
Type : monographie imprimée
Language : English
Format : 9 microfiches ; 105*148 mm
Format : application/pdf
Copyright : domaine public
Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k98105r
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372680376/description
Provenance : bnf.fr
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| EXCURSION TO TERAI. - Dispatch collections - Acorns - Host - Punkahareo - Boes - Titalya - Earthquake - Proceed to Nepal frontier - Tersi, geology of - Physical features of Himalayan valleys - Elephants, purchase of, &c. - Mechi river - Return to Titalya - Leave for Toesta - Jeelpigoree - Cooches - Alternation in the appearance of country by fires, &c. - Grasses - Cottages - Rajah of Gooch Rebar - Condition of people - Hooli festival - Ascend Tresta - Canoes - Crance - Forest - Baikant-pore - Rummai - Exit of Teesta - Canoe voyage down to Rangamally - Birds - Beautiful scenery - Rotanising on elephants - Willow - Iron - Lohar-ghur - Coal and sandstone beds - Mechi fisherman - Hailstorm - Ascent to Dorjiling | |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Arrangements for second journey into Sikkim - Opposition of Dewan - Lassco Kajee - Tendong - Legend of flood - Lama of Silok-foke - Namtchi - Tchebu Lama - Top of Tendong - Gigantic osk - Plants - Toesta valley - Commencement of rains - Bhomaong - Ascent to Lathiang - View - Gorh - Opposition of Lama - Arrival of Meepo - Cross Teesta - Difficulties of travelling - Lepchas swimming - Moxa for sprains - Singtam - Singtam Soubah - Beasnesta and honey seckers - Land-slips - Leeches, &c. - Chakoong - Vegetation - Gravel terraces - Unpleasant effects of worm wood - Choongtam, scenery and vegetation of - Inhabitants - Tibetan salute - Lamas - Difficulty of procuring food - Venomous snakes - Hornets and other insects - Choongtam temple - Pictures of Lhassa-Scenery | |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Routes from Choongtam to Tibet frontier - Choice of that by the Lachen river - Arrival of supplies - Departure - Features of the valley - Eatable Polygonum - Cross Taktoong river - Pines, larches, and other trees - Chateng pool - Water plants and in seets - Tukcham mountain - Lamteng village - Luhabitants - Alpine monkey - Botany of temperate Himalaya - European and American fauna - Japanese and Malayan genera - Superstitious objections to shooting - Customs of people - Rain - Run short of provisions - Altered position of Tibet frontier - Zemu Samdong - Imposition - Vegetation - Uses of pines - Ascent to Thlouck river - Balanophora wood for making cupe - Snow-beds - Eatable mushrooms and Smilacina - View of Kinchinjunga - Arum-roots, preparation of for food - Liklo mountain - Belaviour of my party - Bridge constructed over Zemu - Cross river - Alarm of my party - Camp on Zemu river | |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Camp on Zemu river - Scenery - Falling rocks - Tukcham mountain - Height of glaciers - Botany - Gigantic rhubarb - Storm - Temperature of rivers - Bchaviour of Lachen Phipun - Hostile conduct of Bhotess - View from moutains above camp - Descend to Zemu Samdong - Vegetation - Letters from Dorjiling - Arrival of Singtam Soubah - Presents from Rajah - Parties collecting Arum-roots - Insects - Ascend Lachen river - Talium Samdong village - Cottages - Moutains - Plants - Entomology - Weather - Conduct of Singtam Soubah - His character and illness - Agrees to take me to Kongra Lama - Tungu - Appearance of country - Houses - Poisoning by Arum-roots - Yaks and calves - Tibet ponies - Journey to Kongra Lama - Tibetan tents - Butter, curds, and churns - Hospitality - Kinchinjhow and Chomiomo - Magnificent scenery - Reach Kongra Lama Pass | |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| Top of Kongra Lama - Tibet frontier - Elevation - View - Vegetation - Descent to Tunga - Tunga-choo - Ponies - Kinchinjhow and Changokhang mountains - Palung plains - Tibetans - Dogs - Dingeham province of Tibet - Inhabitants - Dresses - Women's ornaments - Blackening faces - Coral - Tents - Elevation of Palung - Lama - Shawl-wool goats - Shearing - Siberlan plants - Height of glaciers, and perpetual snow - Plants, and wild animals - Marmots - Insects - Birds - Choongtam Lama - Religious exercises - Tibetan hospitality - Delphinium - Perpetual snow - Return to Tallum Samdong - To Lamteng - Houses - Ciesdas - Landslips - Arrival et Choongtam - Cobra - Rageu - 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 | |
| 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 - Lacheepia rock - Extreme cold - Kinchinjunga - Himalayan grouse - Return to Lachoong - Ascent to Yeumtong - Plats and débâcles - Buried pine-trunks - Hot-springs - Behaviour of Singtam Soubah - Leave for Momay Samdong - Upper limit of trees - Glacial terraces, &c. - Forked Donkia - Ascent to Donkia pass - Scenery - Lakes - Tibet - Bhomtso - Arun river - Kianglah moutains - Yaru-Tsampu river - Appearance of Tibet - Kinchinjhow, and Kinchinjunga - Chola range - Deceptive appearance of distant landscape - Perpetual snow - Pulses - Plants - Tripe de roche - Return to Momay - Dogs and yaks - Birds - Insects - Quadrupeds - Hotspriags - Marmots - Kinchinjhow glacier | |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| Donkia glaciers - Moraines - Dome of ice - Honey-combed surface - Accident to instruments - Sebolah pass - Bees and May-fies - View - Lamas and travellers at Momay - Weather and climate - Sensations arising from elevation - Dr. Campbell leaves Dorjiling for Sikkim - Leave Momay - Yeumtong - Lachoong - Retardation of vegetation at low elevations - Choongtam - Landslips and débâcle - meet Dr. Campbell - Motives for his journey - Second visit to Lachen valley - Autumnal tints - Red currants - Lachen Phipun - Tungu - Scenery - Animals - Poisonous rhododendrons - Five-wood - Palung - Elevations - Sitong - Kongra Lama - Tibetans - Enter Tibet - Desolate scenery - Plants - Animals - Geology - Cholamoo lakes - Antelopes - Return to Yeumtso - Dr. Campbell lost - Extreme cold - Headaches - Tibetan Dingpun and guard - Arms and accoutrements - Temperature of Yeumtso - Migratory birds - Visit of Dingpun - Yeumtso lakes | |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| Ascent of Bhomtso - View of snowy mountains - Chumulari - Arun river - Jigatxi - Lhassa - Dingeham province of Tibet - Misapplication of term "Plain of Tibet" - Sheep, flocks of - Crops - Probable elevation of Jigatzi - Yaru-Tsampu river - Tame elephants - Wild horses - Cholamoo lakes - Effects of great elevation - Ascent of Donkia - Moving piles of debris - Cross Dunkia pass - Second visit to Mumay Samdong - Descent to Yeumtong - Lachoong - Retardation of vegetation - Jerked meat - Fish - Lose a thermometer - Lepcha lad sleeps in hot-spring - Kesdom - Bucklandia - Arrive at Choongtam - Mendicant - Meepo - Lachen - Lachoong river - Wild grape - Virulent nettle | |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| Journey to the Rajah's residence at Tumloong - Ryott valley - Rajah's house - Tupgain Lama - Lagong nunnery - Phandong Goompa - Phenzong ditto - Lepcha Sepoys - Preceedings at Tumloong - Refused admittance to Rajah - Women's dresses - Meepo's and Tchebu Lam's families - Chapel - Leave for Chola pass - Ryott river - Rungpo, view from - Deputation of Kajees, &c. - Conference - Laghep - Cathcartia - Phieung-goong - Rutto river - Barfonchen - Curling of rhododendron leaf - Woodcock - Chola pass - Tibet guard and Sepoys - Dingpun - Arrival of Sikkim sepoys - Their conduct - Meet Singtam Soubah - Chumanako - We are seised by the Soubah's party - Soubah's conduct - Dingpun Tinli - Treatment of Dr. Campbell - Bound and guarded - Separated from Campbell - Marched to Tumloong - Motives for such conduct - Arrive at Rungpo - At Phadong - Presents from Rajah - Visits of Lama - Of Singtam Soubah - I am cross questioned by Amlah - Confined with Campbell - Seizure of my coolies - Threats of attacking Dorjiling | |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |
| Dr. Campbell is ordered to appear at Durbar - Lamas called to council - Threats - Scarcity of food - Arrival of Dewan - Our jailor, Thoba sing - Temperature, &c., at Tumloong - Services of Goompas - Lepcha girl - Jews'-harp - Terror of servants - Ilamsing's family - Interview with Dewan - Remonstrances - Dewan feigns aickness - Lord Dalhousie's letter to Rajah - Treatment of Indo-Chinese - Concourse of Lamas - Visit of Tehebu Lama - Close confinement - Dr. Campbell's illness - Conference with Amlah - Relaxation of confinement - Pemiongehi Lama's intercession - Escape of Nimbo - Presents from Rajah, Rance and people - Protestations of friendship - Mr, Lushington sent to Dorjiling - Leave Tumloong - Cordial farewell - Dewan's merchandise - Gangtok Kajee - Dewan's pomp - Governor General's letter - Dikkeeling - Suspicion of poison - Dinner and pills - Tobacco - Bhotanese colony - Katong-ghat on Teesta - Wild lemons - Sepoy's insolence - Dewan alarmed - View of Dorjiling - Threats of a rescue - Fears of our escape - Tibet flutes - Negociate our relense - Arrival at Dorjiling - Dr. Thomson joins me - Movement of troops at Dorjiling - Scizure of Rajah's Terai property | |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | |
| Leave Dorjiling for Calcutta - Jung Bahadoor - Dr. Falconer - Improvements in Botanic Gardens - Palmetum - Victoria - Amherstia - Orchids spread by seed - Banyan - Importation of American plants in ice - Return to Dorjiling - Leave with Dr. Thomson for the Khasia moutains - Mahanuddee river - Vegetation of banks - Maldah - Alligators - Rampore-Beauleah - Climate of Ganges - Pubna - Jummul river - Altered curse of Burrampooter and Megna - Dacca - Conchshells - Saws - Cotton muslins - Fruit - Vegetation - Rose of Bengal - Burrampooter - Delta of Scormah river - Jheels - Soil - Vegetation - Navigation - Mosquitos - Effects of geological changes - Imbedding of plants - Teelas or islets -Chattno - Salubrious climate - Rains - Canoes - Pundus - Terrya Ghat - Ascent to Churra - Scenery and vegetation at foot of moutains - Cascades | |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
| Churra, English station of - Khasia people - Garrow people - Houses - Habits - Dress - Arms - Dialects - Marriages - Food - Funerals - Superstitions - Flat of Churra - Scenery - Lime and coal - Mamloo - Cliffs - Cascades - Flora of Churra - Orchids - Rhodedendrons - Pine - Climate - Extraordinary rain-fall - Its effects - Gardens of Lieuts. Raban and Cave - Leave Churra to cross the mountain runge - Kalapanee river - Lailangkot - Bogapance river - View of Himalaya - Age of Pine-coues - Moflong plants - Coix - Chillong mountain - Extensive view - Road to Syong - Broad valleys - Myrung - Kollong rock - Pine-woods - Features of country - Orchids - Iron forges | |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | |
| View of Himalaya from the Khasia - Great masses of snow - Chumulari - Donkia - Grasses - Nunklow - Burrampooter - Tropical forest - Borpance - Rhododendrons - Wild elephants. Blocks of Syenite - Return to Churra - August temperature - Leave for Chela - Birds - Habits of leaf insects - Curious village - Houses - Canoes - Boga-pance river - Jheels - Chattue - Churra - Leave for Jyntea hills - Trading parties - Dried fish - Cherries - Cinuamon - Fraud - Nonkreem - Granite boulders - Iron washing - Forgen - Tanks - Siberian Nymphoea - Pomrang - Patchouli plant - Mooshye - Pitcher-plant - Joowye cultivation and vegetation - Sulky hostess - Nurtiung - Sacred grove and gigantic stone structures - Altars - Pyramids, &c. - Origin of names - Collections - November vegetation | |
| CHAPTER XXX | |
| Boat voyage to Silbet - River - Palms - Fish weirs - Forest of Cachar - Sandal-wood, &c. - Porpoises - Alligators - Silichar - Tigers - Rice-crops - Cookies - Munniporees - Hockey - Dance - Nagas - Excursion to Munniporee frontier - Elephant bogged - Climate, &c. of Cachar - Mosquitos - Fall of bank - Silhet - Tree-ferns - Chattuc - Megna - Noacolly - Salt-smuggling - Delta of Ganges and Megna - Westward progress of Megna - Tide - Waves - Dangerous navigation - Moonlight scenes - Mud island - Chittagong - Views - Trees - Coffee - Pepper - Excursions from Chittagong - Gurjun trees - Earthquake - Birds - Papaw - Poppy and sun fields - Seetakoond bungalow and hill - Perpetual flame - Climate - Leave for Calcutta - Hattiah island - Plants - Sunderbunds - Steamer - Tides - Nipa fruticans - Crocodiles - Phoenix paludosa - Fishing - Otters - Departure from India |
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