Himalayan Journals: Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c, Bind 2J. Murray, 1855 - 348 sider A new edition, carefully revised and condensed. |
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amongst appeared arrived ascended Assam bamboo bank beautiful Bengal Bhomtso Bhotan broad bungalow Burrampooter Calcutta Campbell Chittagong Chola pass Cholamoo lakes Choongtam Churra climate coolies crossed cultivated descended Dewan Dingpun distance Donkia pass Dorjiling east elephants elevation feet high flank flat flowers forest formed frontier Gangtok gigantic glaciers grass ground hills Himalaya immense Jheels Jigatzi jungle Kajee Khasia Kinchinjhow Kinchinjunga Kongra Lama Lachen Lachoong Lamteng latter leaves Lepchas Lhassa lofty Meepo miles Momay moraines natives Nepal night palms Palung Phipun plants ponies poonji rain Rajah rhododendron rice ridge rise river rocks rocky Samdong sent Sepoys shrubs side Sikkim Silhet Singtam Soubah slopes snow snowy Soormah species spur steep stone stream Sunderbunds Tallum Tchebu Lama Teesta Teesta river temperature tent Terai Thlonok Tibet Tibetan trees tropical Tumloong Tungu valley vegetation village wild wind wood yaks Zemu
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Side 138 - Were it buried in everlasting snows, or burnt by a tropical sun, it might still be as utterly sterile ; but with such sterility I had long been familiar. Here the colourings are those of the fiery desert or volcanic island, while the climate is that of the poles. Never, in the course of all my wanderings, had my eye rested on a scene so dreary and inhospitable.
Side 42 - Leeches swarmed in incredible profusion in the streams and damp grass, and among the bushes : they got into my hair, hung on my eyelids, and crawled up my legs and down my back. I repeatedly took upwards of a hundred from my legs, where the small ones used to collect in clusters on the instep : the sores which they produced were not healed for five months afterwards, and I retain the scars to the present day.
Side 42 - Another pest is a small midge, or sand-fly, which causes intolerable itching, and subsequent irritation, and is in this respect the most insufferable torment in Sikkim ; the minutest rent in one's clothes is detected by the acute senses of this insatiable blood-sucker, which is itself so small as to be barely visible without a microscope. We daily arrived at our camping ground streaming with blood, and mottled with the bites of peepsas, gnats, midges, and mosquitos, besides being infested with ticks.
Side 159 - The phenomenon invariably accompanies decay, and is common on oak, laurel, birch, and probably other timbers; it equally appears on cut wood and on stumps, but is most frequent on branches lying close to the ground in the wet forests. I have reason to believe that it spreads with great rapidity from old surfaces to freshly cut ones.
Side 260 - Malayan Archipelago, is still almost confined to Dacca : the shells are sawn across for this purpose by semicircular saws, the hands and toes being both actively employed in the operation. The introduction of circular saws has been attempted by some European gentlemen, but steadily resisted by the natives, despite their obvious advantages.
Side 315 - Of the latter we had 360 panicles, each composed of from six to twenty-one broad pale-blue tesselated flowers, three and a half to four inches across ; and they formed three piles on the floor of the verandah, each a yard high : — what would we not have given to have been able to transport a single panicle to a Chiswick fe"te...
Side 254 - Kujoor (Date-palm), out of whose crown the Banyan sprouted, and beneath which a Fakir sat. It is a remarkable fact that the banyan hardly ever vegetates on the ground ; but its figs are eaten by birds, and the seeds deposited in the crowns of palms, where they grow, sending down roots that embrace and eventually kill the palm, which decays away. This tree is now eighty feet high, and throws an area 300 feet * in diameter into a dark, cool shade. The gigantic limbs spread out about ten feet above...
Side 77 - Meconopsis burst into flower. On the black rocks the gigantic rhubarb forms pale pyramidal towers a yard high, of inflated reflexed bracts, that conceal the flowers, and, overlapping one another like tiles, protect them from the wind and rain : a whorl of broad green leaves, edged with red spreads on the ground at the base of the plant, contrasting in color with the transparent bracts, which are yellow, margined with pink. This is the handsomest herbaceous plant in Sikkim : it is called
Side 332 - Its leaves are broad, glossy, and beautiful ; the flowers (then falling) are not conspicuous ; the wood is hard, close-grained, and durable, and a fragrant oil exudes from the trunk, which is extremely valuable as pitch and varnish, &c., besides being a useful medicine. The natives procure it by cutting transverse holes in the trunk, pointing downwards, and lighting fires in them, which causes the oil to flow.
Side 263 - ... ten thousand square miles. In the dry season the Jheels are marshy, but during the rains, which are excessive on the neighboring mountains, they are entirely overflowed, the water rising to within a few inches of the huts which are built along the borders of the rivers which traverse it. The soil, sandy along the Burrampooter, is more muddy and clayey in the centre of the Jheels, with immense accumulations of vegetable matter in the marshes, consisting chiefly of decomposed grass-roots and leaves....