Tassiding, view of and from -- Funereal cypress -- Camp at Sunnook -- Hot vapours -- Lama's house -- Temples, decorations, altars, idols, general effect -- Chaits -- Date of erection -- Plundered by Ghorkas -- Cross Ratong -- Ascend to Pemiongehi -- Relation of river-beds to strike of rocks -- Slopes of ravines -- Pemiongehi, view of -- Vegetation -- Elevation -- Temple, decorations, etc. -- Former capital of Sikkim -- History of Sikkim -- Nightingales -- Campbell departs -- Tchonpong -- _Edgeworthia_ -- Cross Rungbee and Ratong -- Hoar-frost on plantains -- Yoksun -- Walnuts -- View -- Funereal cypresses -- Doobdi -- Gigantic cypresses -- Temples -- Snow-fall -- Sikkim, etc. -- Toys. CHAPTER XV. Leave Yoksun for Kinchinjunga -- Ascend Ratong valley -- Salt-smuggling over Ratong -- Landslips -- Plants -- Buckeem -- Blocks of gneiss -- Mon Lepcha -- View -- Weather -- View from Gubroo -- Kinchinjunga, tops of -- Pundimcliff -- Nursing -- Vegetation of Himalaya -- Coup d'oeil of Jongri -- Route to Yalloong -- Arduous route of salt-traders from Tibet -- Kinchin, ascent of -- Lichens -- Surfaces sculptured by snow and ice -- Weather at Jongri -- Snow -- Shades for eyes. CHAPTER XVI. Ratong river below Mon Lepcha -- Ferns -- Vegetation of Yoksun, tropical -- _Araliaceae_, fodder for cattle -- Rice-paper plant -- Geology of Yoksun -- Lake -- Old temples -- Funereal cypresses -- Gigantic chart -- Altars -- Songboom -- Weather -- Catsuperri -- Velocity of Ratong -- Worship at Catsuperri lake -- Scenery -- Willow -- Lamas and ecclesiastical establishments of Sikkim -- Tengling -- Changachelling temples and monks -- Portrait of myself on walls -- Block of mica-schist -- Lingcham Kajee asks for spectacles -- Hee-hill -- Arrive at Little Rungeet -- At Dorjiling -- Its deserted and wintry appearance. CHAPTER XVII. Dispatch collections -- Acorns -- Heat -- Punkabaree -- Bees -- Vegetation -- Haze -- Titalya -- Earthquake -- Proceed to Nepal frontier -- Terai, geology of -- Physical features of Himalayan valleys -- Elephants, purchase of, etc. -- River-beds -- Mechi river -- Return to Titalya -- Leave for Teesta -- Climate of plains -- Jeelpigoree -- Cooches -- Alteration in the appearance of country by fires, etc. -- Grasses -- Bamboos -- Cottages -- Rajah of Cooch Behar -- Condition of people -- Hooli festival -- Ascend Teesta -- Canoes -- Cranes -- Forest -- Baikant-pore -- Rummai -- Religion -- Plants at foot of mountains -- Exit of Teesta -- Canoe voyage down to Rangamally -- English genera of plants -- Birds -- Beautiful scenery -- Botanizing on elephants -- Willow -- Siligoree -- Cross Terai -- Geology -- Iron -- Lohar-ghur -- Coal and sandstone beds -- Mechi fisherman -- Hailstorm -- Ascent to Kursiong -- To Dorjiling -- Vegetation -- Geology -- Folded quartz-beds -- Spheres of feldspar -- Lime deposits. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS.