Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-04-18
INoNs SUMMER RESORT.
highest Railroad Station in the Old
nchInJingl-Traders.

highest Railroad Station in the Old
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
At 4 O'Clock we had reached an eleva-
tion Of over 7,l00 feet, the highest rail-
road station in the Old World 4 rapid
descent of 500 feet brought us TO Dar-
jeeling, three miles further on. This is
very picturesque town, with pretty
houses, all in gardens, scattered along
the steep side of a sort Of amphtheatre,
looking down over deep valley and
ever slopes of tea gardens. Over the
valley in front of the town rears a sue
session Of mountains, 5000, 10000 and
12, 900 feet high, with magnificent sky
lines, and further over and beyond them,
forty-iive miles away, Lifts mighty Kun
chinjinga, %, 1856 feet high. and, next to
Everest, the loftiest peak ON the globe.
DarJeeling Is summer resort for the
Europeans of the plain, the summer home
OF the lieutenant governor Of India and
governor of Bengal. and a sanitarium for
the English troops. On the top of the
bill, above it 1000 feet, is barrack
and hospital. In the town Is bazaar, in
which On Sunday we saw "A most inter-
ssting mass OF 5000 or q, 200 people from
Eepaul. Sikkim, Bhootan. Thibet and
Darjeeling proper. IL was one of the
regular set Of fairs for trading. and was
food for several days study. Unfortu-
nately, however, we saw il only on its
last day, but also its best. Trade was
going on in sheep, goats and ponies from
Bhootan and a few from Thibet. People
were there from Sikkim with maize.
peas, oyanges and grain; people from Ne
paul with knives and produce Of several
sorts.
The stocks were small, frequently only
20 much as the dealer had brought on
his back over the mountain passes. One
had two or three bushels of Indian corn,
poor article. Another n like quantity
of beans or millet. Here was a woman
who had Travelled for two or three DAYS
with two bushels of oranges hanging
from her forehead She had climbed
pass s, 200 feet high and slept in the cold
open air on the bare ground. She was
happy when she sold her stock out at
retail and received .hree rupees, or $l.0J.
There was man who had iourneyed in
the same way fir m Just under Mount
Everest, five or six days journey. His
stock was four P0man nosed sheep and
half dozen Nep; plese knives. The sheep,
which had been the pack horses for his
knives and proyender, are worth three
rupes each and the knives one. The
dealers were generally squatted on the
ground, with their little stores in baskets
or on mats before them. Their worldly
wealth was small, but yet they had
contented look.
II made me, on arrival, almost blush
to permit good looking. soft eyed girl
to take my sachels from the station to the
hotel. One of these makes nv arm ache
to carry it 100 or SO yarGs, yet this little
girl swung two from her forehead,
climbed f'imbly the high hill tothe hotel,
few hundred yards of, and was per-
fectly satisfied when gave her two an
nas-or less than five cents. There are
many fine rides in the neighborhood of
Darjceiing-one through dense forest
on steep mountain side gave us a fine
insight into the growth of these latitudes.
So close and dense are they the sun never
penetrates TO the ground. and that a stick
of wood never dries. The rainfall there
is about l2j inches a year; the soil is as
rich as loan can be made, and the forest
vegetation is astonishing. regret that
4 have not time 10 describe il to YOU.
We, however, had come TO see mighty
snow clad mountains. not to revel in
vegetation nor 10 delight in forest clothed
valleys and vine covered slopes.
We reached Darieeling exactly twenty
four hours after leaving Calcutta. The
gray and green mountains around were
visible, but thick clouds shrouded the
snow clad frozen heights. Our landlord
said il was rapidly turning colder, and
the morrow would be bright. We went
70 bed 10 hope and dream. | was
awakened Just before by the mournful
howling ami queer chatterlng barllngSO Of
jackals close to my window. 1t seemed
to me there was rack. but | have an
indisiinct recollection that where two or
three of these brutcS are gathered 10.
gether much noise is there with them. |
went To the front Of the house, and be-
fore me rose the viceroy Of mountains
mighty kunclinjiuga. His glacicred
peak caught the pale rays Of the dcclin-
ing morn and sent thcm hack as il from
a rugged m1~s Of cold, FURNISHED silver
Grand and gloomy, hc pierced the sky,
sceptered monarch. To hi> right and to
his left stood his royal aids. each succeed
ing one little lower than the last. For
half hundred miles these royal attend
ants stool in grand array, each a king
and crowned in silvereI diadems. /
could scarcely tear myself away, but
looking TO the north saw clear sky
over the lofty foot hills, and had reason
10 think the monarch of all was un-
clouded. Carter Harrison in Chicago
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