Himalayan Journals — Complete: Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.Hooker, Joseph Dalton
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Himalayan Journals — Complete: Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Himalaya Mountains
View of the head of the Yangma valley, and ancient moraines of debris, which rise in confused hills several hundred feet above the floor of the valley below the Kanglachem pass (elevation 16,000 feet).
Fig. 25. Skulls of _Ovis ammon._ Sketched by J. E. Winterbottom, Esq.
Fig. 26. Ancient moraines, in which small lake-beds occur, in the Kambachen valley (elevation 11,400 feet).
Fig. 27. Brass box to contain amulets, from Tibet.
Fig. 28. Pemiongchi goompa (or temple) with Chaits in the foreground.
Fig. 29. Costumes of Sikkim lamas and monks, with the bell, mani, dobje, and trident.
Fig. 30. The Do-mani stone, with gigantic Tibetan characters.
Fig. 31. Implements of worship in the Sikkim temples.
Fig. 32. Chaits at Tassiding, with decayed funereal cypresses.
Fig. 33. Vestibule of temple at Tassiding.
Fig. 34. Southern temple, at Tassiding.
Fig. 35. Middle temple, at Tassiding, with mounted yaks.
Fig. 36. Chair, altar, and images in the great temple at Tassiding.
Fig. 37. Ground-plan of southern temple at Tassiding.
Fig. 38. Interior of temple at Pemiongchi, the walls covered with allegorical paintings.
Fig. 39. Doobdi temple, with young and old funereal cypress.
Fig. 40. Summit of Kinchinjunga, with Pundim on the right; its black cliff traversed by white granite veins.
Fig. 41. Image of Maitrya, the coming Boodh.
Fig. 42. Stone altar, and erection for burning juniper ashes.
Fig. 43. Facsimile of the vermilion seal of the Dhurma Rajah of Bhotan, head of the Dookpa sect of Boodhists.
Fig. 44. A Mech, native of the Sikkim Terai. Sketched by Miss Colvile.
Fig. 45. Mech pocket-comb (of wood).
Fig. 46. Pandanus in the Teesta valley.
Fig. 47. Cane-bridge over the Lachen-Lachoong river, below Choongtam. Tukcham mountain is brought into the view, as seen from a higher elevation.
Fig. 48. _Juniperus recurva,_ the weeping juniper.
Fig. 49. Lamteng village, with Tukcham in the distance.
Fig. 50. Black juniper and young larch.
Fig. 51. Tungu village, with yaks in the foreground.
Fig. 52. Women’s head-dresses—the two outer, Lepcha girls; the two inner, Tibetan women.
Fig. 53. Tibet marmot. Sketched by J. E. Winterbottom, Esq.
Fig. 54. Lachoong valley (looking south), larch tree in the foreground.
Fig. 55. Conical ancient moraines in the Lachoong valley, with _Abies brunoniana_ and _smithiana_.
Fig. 56. Head and legs of Tibet marmot. Sketched by J. E. Winterbottom, Esq.
Fig. 57. Block of gneiss with granite bands, on the Kinchinjhow glacier.
Fig. 58. Summit of forked Donkia mountain, with Goa antelopes in the foreground; from 17,500 feet elevation.
Fig. 59. View of the eastern top of Kinchinjhow, and Tibet in the distance, with wild sheep in the foreground; from an elevation of 18,000 feet.
Fig. 60. Head of Chiru antelope, the unicorn of Tibet. From a sketch by Lieut. H. Maxwell.
Fig. 61. A Phud, or Tibetan mendicant. Sketched at Dorjiling by Miss Colvile.
Fig. 62. Tea (brick of), tea-pot, wooden cup, etc.
Fig. 63.
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