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Among
the Himalayas
by Major L A Waddell
Hardback. 452 pages. B&W
photographs. Foldout colour map.
Weight: 680 g (23.8 oz).
Item No: 81-7624-030-3.
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"During the past fourteen
years I have traversed portions of [the borderlands of Sikkim]
nearly every year, sketching, shooting, collecting, and especially
exploring the customs of the people on the frontiers of Tibet,
and of Nepal...where I lived in tents for four or five months
of several successive years. ....This illustrated narrative of
my journeyings I hope may reflect, in some measure, the keen
enjoyment of travel in these regions, may awaken further interest
in a fascinating though little known land, may assist in guiding
the traveller to those features that are of greatest general
interest, and bring home to the reader a whiff of the bracing
breezes of the Himalayas."
An account of the author's travels in the 1890s in India and
Sikkim, including sections on the Nepal and Tibet borders. Profusely
illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, sketches, maps
and diagrams.
"Chapter nine gives a general account of Gurkha customs,
with some inaccuracies. There is also a detailed discussion of
Mount Everest and other major peaks. The author is an advocate
of a 'forward' policy in Tibet to forestall the Russians, and
exhibits particularly strong prejudices in favour of the mountain
peoples and against those of the Indian plains." - John
Whelpton, Nepal (Clio Press)
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Contents
CHAPTER
I
TO DARJEELING AND THE PREPARATIONS FOR OUR JOURNEY
The views and the people--Special difficultiesof travelling the
interior of
the central Himalayas--Our arrangements
CHAPTER
II
THE
START AND CROSS INTO NATIVE SIKHIM
Troubles at starting--Nepalese fair and Feast of Lanterns--Tea
Gardens--Lama Temple and bloody sacrifices--The country--Lepchas
in the jungle--Great
Rang-eet Valley--Our Camp
CHAPTER
III
UP
THE TEESTA VALLEY TO THE KING`S CAPITAL
The Tribes of Sikhim--The Lepchas--A native Chief and his
Government--Legends--Crossing a torrent by a rickety cane-bridge--The
Land
Leeches and a climb
CHAPTER
IV
AT
THE CAPITAL OF SIKHIM TO THE THRESHOLD OF THE SNOWS
The King And Queen--Their Relations To The British--Intrigues
with the
Chinese--Monks and Monasteries--The Upper Teesta to the Threshold
of the
Snows
CHAPTER
V
THE
ALPINE LACHOONG VALLEY
TO THE TIBETAN FRONTIER AND PASSES
Amongst the Yaks And Tibetans--Tang-kar snowfield--Death of a
fellow-traveller--Tibetan Guard and their captain--Dong-kia and
other passes
and glaciers--The true Himalayas or Abode of Snow-- An Unexplored
pass, and a survey beyond into Tibet
CHAPTER
VI
THE
LACHEN VALLEY AND EASTERN GLACIERS
OF KANCHEN-JUNGA
Political Missions to Tibet--Eastern Glaciers of kanchen-junga--Zemu
glacier
CHAPTER VII
THROUGH
BRITISH BHOTAN TO DARJEELING
Our food from our jungle--Snakes--Christian Missions--Turbulent
Bhotanese,
and our annexations of their country--Tibetan traders--The wild
horse--Junction of Rang-eet and Teesta--Locust plague
CHAPTER
VIII
TO
THE EASTERN PASS OF THE JELEP, AND THE SCENE OF THE LATE WAR
On the line of an army in the field--Storming the Tibetan fort
at
Lingtoo--The Anglo-Chinese Convention--The Highest European fort
in the
world--Jelep pass, the trade route to Lhasa and Pekin--The Choombi
valley,
its political strategical importance--How places are named--Game
in the
Bhotanese Terai--The Koch Tribe--Lepcha songs and music--Cinchona
plantations
CHAPTER
IX
ALONG
THE NEPAL FRONTIER TOWARDS EVEREST, ETC.
TO SANDOOK-PHU AND FALOOT
The warlike Goorkhas and conquest of Nepal--Their recent adoption
of
Hindooism--The other tribes of Nepal--Paradise of the
orchid-hunters--Rhododendron forest--View from Tonglu--Sandook-phu,"the
hill
of the poison-plant" and its scenery--A Nepalese frozen
dead in the
snow--Faloot Peak--Mauled by Bears--Everest,its names and form--Peaks
higher
than Everest
CHAPTER
X
THE
SOUTHERN PEAKS AND GLACIERS OF THE
KANCHEN-JUNGA GROUP
Spectre of the Brocken--The "Singalelah ridge" a misnomer--Ridge
beyond
Chow-banjan--Camping under difficulties--Yampoong yak-station
and its
Tibetan herdsmen--Jongri and the Guicha pass to Pandim and the
glaciers of
Kanchen-junga--Kanchen-junga, its form and structure--Its worship
by the
natives--Mr Graham's ascent of "Kabru"--Expert opinion
and evidence on this
claim to the highst climb
CHAPTER
XI
THE
KANG PASS FOR THE WESTERN GLACIERS
OF KANCHEN-JUNGA AND FOR JANNU--
NEPALESE JEALOUS EXCLUSIVENESS
Across the unexplored Dui and Chambab into Nepal--Divisions of
Eastern
Nepal--Geologyof adjoining part of Tibet--Flight and capture
of king of
Sikhim--Chinese intrigues in Sikhim and Tibet--Western side of
Kang-la--Northern cliff of Everest--Nepalese guards--Game--Bivouac
in
cave--Return
List
of Illustrations
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CROSSING
A TORRENT BY A RICKETY CANE-BRIDGE
PEAK D2 (SINIOLCHU)
INITIAL LETTER SHOWING RELATIVE SIZES OF EVEREST, MT. BLANC,
ETC
THE HIMALAYAS OF SIKHIM RISING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
ENTERING THE MOUNTAIN TRAIN
FISHING IN THE TERAI
OUTER HIMALAYAS IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCES
HILL PEDESTRIANS
STEAMING UP THROUGH AN AVENUE IN THE SAL FOREST
GIRL CARRYING CHILD
A CLEARING IN THE FOREST
NEPALESE VILLAGERS
TIBETAN TWIRLING A "PRAYING WHEEL"
"BAKSHEESH"
SNOW FROM SENCHAL
KEY TO SNOWY RANGES SEEN FROM SENCHAL
EVEREST FROM SENCHAL
CURIO SELLERS
A TIBETAN
A LEPCHA
NEPALESE WOMEN OF MOORMI OR TAMANG-BHOTIYA TRIBE
BHOTIYA WOMEN SELLING EGGS
SIKHIMESE MATRON
NEPALESE CHILDREN
PACKING UP THE BAGGAGE
THE START
ACHOOM, OUR CHIEF LEPCHA SERVANT
OUR "CARAVAN OF COOLIES"
KINTOOP, THE TIBETAN EXPLORER "K.P." AND HEAD OF OUR
COOLIES
BUDDHIST TEMPLE AT DORTSOOK
NEPALESE SWING AT A FAIR
A MONK SIPPING A MURWA BEER
RANG-EET RIVER
"THEIR PARASOLS GROW BY THE WAY-SIDE"
A LEPCHA
LEPCHA HOUSES
A LEPCHA WOMEN
SIKHIMESE CHIEF AND RETINUE
THE MORNING'S BAG AT GAMOTANG
CROSSING TORRENTS
A LIMBOO BEAUTY
DIK-CHU CANE-BRIDGE
TEMPLE BAND AT PHODANG MONASTERY
THE KING AND QUEEN OF SIKHIM
CROSSING CLIFFS ON BAMBOO LADDERS
LOG BRIDGE ON CANTIVELER PRINCIPLE
YAKS
THE POLITE TIBETAN SALUTATION
CASCADE OF THE LETE
HIMALAYAN LARCH
DOWNWARD VIEW FROM THE CLEFT
GIANT WILD RHUBARB
VIEW INTO TIBET FROM TANG-KAR PASS
TRYING TO BOIL AN ALTITUDE THERMOMETER
GRAVE AND CAIRN OF OUR FELLOW TRAVELLER
AN AVALANCHE OF ROCKS
YOOMTANG AND ITS YAKS
CAPTAIN OF THE TIBETAN FRONTIER GUARD ON HIS YAK
KANCHEN-JOW AND ENTRANCE TO SEBOO PASS
THE GOD OF MT. KANCHEN-JUNGA
PEAK D2 (SINIOLCHU)
NORTH BRIDGE OF KANCHEN-JUNGA, SHOWING GAP
NANGNA PASS
BHOTANESE CHIEF AND RETINUE
THE MARRIAGE OF THE RANG-EET AND TEESTA RIVERS
A LOCUST (A. SUCCINTUM)
ORCHID AND MOSS-COVERED OAK FOREST
TIBETAN FORTIFICATIONS AT YATOONG
TIBETAN SOLDIERS
CHINESE ENVOY FROM LHASA, AND SUITE
KOCH OR "COOCH" TRIBE
A GOORKHA
THE RULER OF NEPAL
KIRANTI OR JIMDAR TRIBE
MANGAR NEPALESE
A HILL MUSICIAN
THROUGH A GLADE OF FEATHERY BAMBOOS
RHODODENDRON TREES
SEA OF CLOUDS RISING FROM THE PLAINS
POISONED ARROWS
SNOWS FROM SANDOOK-PHU
EVEREST GROUP RISING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
NEPALESE FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE SNOW
KEY TO THE EVEREST GROUP
EVEREST FROM SANDOOK-PHU
EVEREST AND PEAK XIII FROM THE SOUTH
EVEREST AND PEAK XIII FROM BANGURA TRIG. STATION
NEPALESE HIMALAYAS FROM SOMESHWAR RANGE
MY TAXIDERMIST AT WORK
PEAK XIII FROM MIGO
SHAR-PA BHOTYAS
PANDIM FROM TONG-SHYONG-TAM
GLACIER AT GUICHA PASS
KANCHEN-JUNGA, SOUTH-EAST FACE FROM TONG-SHYONG
EASTERN GLACIER OF KANCHEN-JUNGA FROM TONG-SHYONG
WORSHIP OF THE GOD OF KANCHEN-JUNGA
KANCHEN-JUNGA FROM THE WEST
CROSSING OMA PASS ON A YAK
"THE ENCHANTED LAKE OF THE PEACOCK'S TAIL"
ANGLO-TIBETAN BOUNDARY COMMISSIONERS
THE LAY GOVERNOR OF LHASA, AND SUITE
PROFILE OF KABRU ETC., FROM SEMO PASS
KANG-LA FROM THE WEST
NORTH-EAST FACE OF EVEREST
BIVOUAC IN A CAVE
MAPS
MAP OF
RANGES AND PEAKS SEEN FROM SENCHAL
MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF EVEREST AND EASTERN NEPAL
SKETCH MAP OF PANGA PASS ON FLANK OF EVEREST
HIMALAYAS OF SIKHIM AND ADJOINING COUNTRIES SHOWING AUTHOR'S
ROUTES
APPENDIX.--NOTES
TO THE TEXT
INDEX
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Among the Himalayas
by Major L A Waddell
Hardback. 452 pages. B&W photographs. Foldout colour map.
Weight: 680 g (23.8 oz).
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