I was here overtaken by a messenger with letters from Dr. Campbell, announcing that the Sikkim Rajah had disavowed the refusal to the Governor-General's letter, and authorising me to return through any part of Sikkim I thought proper. The bearer was a Lepcha attached to the court: his dress was that of a superior person, being a scarlet jacket over a white cotton dress, the breadth of the blue stripes of which generally denotes wealth; he was accompanied by a sort of attache, who wore a magnificent pearl and gold ear-ring, and carried his master's bow, as well as a basket on his back; while an attendant coolie bore their utensils and food. Meepo, or Teshoo (in Tibetan, Mr.), Meepo, as he was usually called, soon attached himself to me, and proved an active, useful, and intelligent companion, guide, and often collector, during many months afterwards. The vegetation round Mywa Guola is still thoroughly tropical: the banyan is planted, and thrives tolerably, the heat being great during the day. Like the whole of the Tambur valley below 4000 feet, and especially on these flats, the climate is very malarious before and after the rains; and I was repeatedly applied to by natives suffering under attacks of fever. During the two days I halted, the mean temperature was 60 degrees (extremes, 80/41 degrees), that of the Tambur, 53 degrees, and of the Mywa, 56 degrees; each varying a few degrees (the smaller stream the most) between sunrise and 4 p.m.: the sunk thermometer was 72 degrees. As we should not easily be able to procure food further on, I laid in a full stock here, and distributed blankets, etc., sufficient for temporary use for all the people, dividing them into groups or messes. CHAPTER IX. Leave Mywa -- Suspension bridge -- Landslips -- Vegetation -- Slope of riverbed -- Bees' nests -- Glacial phenomena -- Tibetans, clothing, ornaments, amulets, salutation, children, dogs -- Last Limboo village, Taptiatok -- Beautiful scenery -- Tibet village of Lelyp -- _Opuntia_ -- _Edgeworthia_ -- Crab-apple -- Chameleon and porcupine -- Praying machine -- _Abies Brunoniana_ -- European plants -- Grand scenery -- Arrive at Wallanchoon -- Scenery around -- Trees -- Tibet houses -- Manis and Mendongs -- Tibet household -- Food -- Tea-soup -- Hospitality -- Yaks and Zobo, uses and habits of -- Bhoteeas -- Yak-hair tents -- Guobah of Walloong -- Jhatamansi -- Obstacles to proceeding -- Climate and weather -- Proceed -- Rhododendrons, etc. -- Lichens -- _Poa annua_ and Shepherd's purse -- Tibet camp -- Tuquoroma -- Scenery of pass -- Glaciers and snow -- Summit -- Plants, woolly, etc.