Himalayan Journals — Volume 1 by J. D. (Joseph Dalton) Hooker
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CHAPTER X. Return from Wallanchoon pass -- Procure a bazaar at village -- Dance of Lamas -- Blackening face, Tibetan custom of -- Temple and convent -- Leave for Kanglachem pass -- Send part of party back to Dorjiling -- Yangma Guola -- Drunken Tibetans -- Guobah of Wallanchoon -- Camp at foot of Great Moraine -- View from top -- Geological speculations -- Height of moraines -- Cross dry lake-bed -- Glaciers -- More moraines -- Terraces -- Yangma temples -- Jos, books and furniture -- Peak of Nango -- Lake -- Arrive at village -- Cultivation -- Scenery -- Potatos -- State of my provisions -- Pass through village -- Gigantic boulders -- Terraces -- Wild sheep -- Lake-beds -- Sun's power -- Piles of gravel and detritus -- Glaciers and moraines -- Pabuk, elevation of -- Moonlight scene -- Return to Yangma -- Temperature, etc. -- Geological causes of phenomena in valley -- Scenery of valley on descent. CHAPTER XI. Ascend to Nango mountain -- Moraines -- Glaciers -- Vegetation -- _Rhododendron Hodgsoni_ -- Rocks -- Honey-combed surface of snow -- Perpetual snow -- Top of pass -- View -- Elevation -- Geology -- Distance of sound -- Plants -- Temperature -- Scenery -- Cliffs of granite and hurled boulders -- Camp -- Descent -- Pheasants -- Larch -- Himalayan pines -- Distribution of Deodar, note on -- Tassichooding temples -- Kambachen village -- Cultivation -- Moraines in valley, distribution of -- Picturesque lake-beds, and their vegetation -- Tibetan sheep and goats -- _Cryptogramma crispa_ -- Ascent to Choonjerma pass -- View of Junnoo -- Rocks of its summit |
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