This Wallanchoon is " a large village of painted wooden houses," con taining about a hundred houses and temples, which latter buildings contain rows of praying machines .
It was by that route that Doctor Hooker proceeded, and thence up the gorge of the Tambur river to the Wallan choon Pass to Thibet.  This Wallanchoon is " a large village of painted wooden houses," con taining about a hundred houses and temples, which latter buildings contain rows of praying machines .  These machines are supposed to be as efficacious as oral prayer.