Soon after camping, the Lachoong Phipun, a very tall, intelligent, and agreeable looking man, waited on me with the usual presents, and a request that I would visit his sick father. His house was lofty and airy: in the inner room the sick man was stretched on a board, covered with a blanket, and dying of pressure on the brain; he was surrounded by a deputation of Lamas from Teshoo Loombo, sent for in this emergency. The principal one was a fat fellow, who sat cross-legged before a block-printed Tibetan book, plates of raw meat, rice, and other offerings, and the bells, dorje, etc. of his profession. Others sat around, reading or chanting services, and filling the room with incense. At one end of the apartment was a good library in a beautifully carved book-case. Illustration--HEAD AND FEET OF TIBET MARMOT. 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 -- Ascent 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.