Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-15

the billowy clouds and iilmy atmos.
pheric effects made Il picture never
| to be forgotten.
From Tiger Hill. the highest point
on Senchal and within easy riding
| distance of Darjcciing the view Is
simply indcscribable. Beneath for
miles around, rolled a billowy mass of
dense clouds. with here and there the
timbered tops of mountain peaks peep.
| ing from out this seething mass.
! Above. as far as the eye could reach
were hundreds of snDw.capped noun
tains. overshadowed by the towering
crests of Everest and Kinchinjunga.
These, catching the first rays of the
rising sun. appeared Ike. beacons to
| the still slumbering valleys nesting
at their base. Truly 1t was an In.
spring sight and one not readily to
be forgotten. Even Mt. Shasta, Mau.
ma Kea and other noted peaks of this
hemisphere appeared dwarf-like as
compared to these giants OF the
| Orient.
I
city. II has its social side as well rs
its commercial II becomes the seat
of government during the hot weather
when the Lieutenant.G Governor of Ben
gal takes up his residence at the
Shrubbcry and administers the affairs
Of that Province, whose population
numbers some eighty seven and half
millions, a total exceeding by several
millions the population Of the United
States. Standing out conspicuOusly
and distant only some forty.fve miles
as the crow. flies, Isl K!nchiniunga,
2S1j6 feet in altitude; while to the
northwest Is Mt. Everest. 29,0O2 feet
in altitude, the two highest noun
tans in the world.
Types Are Many.
Sauntering along the chowrusta,
many tyres of Mungolians were met.
First ioyial band of Bhutias was
J passed several of the women having
their. faces smeared with an admixture
, Of butter and coagulated pigs blood
They held each others hands and
: laughed and cracked jokes as they
; returned hOmcward after visit ia
, Signal Hill where they had stopped
to offer M prayers. A Thibetan lady
with her hair done up In the form OF
: II queue. cOiled gracefully upon hel
head. her ears literally weighted down
= with gold and turquoise ornaments
r and with Il chatelaine suspended from
5 her right breast. was next passed
! Scores of Ncpalcsc and Paharias wcr,
: scel vending their way up the noun
5 tain paths. On the way home part!
. of Lepchas, the supposedly aborigina
: Inhabitants Of these regions, were In
} terviewed They proved TO be a mos
p intelligent people and seemed to know
I the names of every beast and insect
{ as well as those OF flowers and plants
I with which their forests abound.
e Darieeling besides being the seat u
, government OF Bengal during the no
n months preceding the monsoon, II
e one of the great tea producing dis
i tricts of India. This plant was intro
!. duced into these hills as early as 1856
= employment on the estates. Clnchon'
Y Is also extensively cultivated. the gov
i crnmcnt having several large planta
lions in and about Darjeeling and sup
E PIGMENTS its revenue by the ready SAT-
i Of quinne a drug so much in evidence
I throughout the malarial districts o
k Hindustan
Himaaya Is Il sanskrit word, mean
I ing the abode of snow" This stu
l pendous mountain chain extends iron
the Brahmaputra river, which flows
through the Assam Valley, to the In
Y dus, thus forming an insurmountabl,
. barrier. The term Himalaya, as in
2 terpreted above, Is applicable only Il
: those mountains whose tops are per
] petually covered with snow; the name
+ pahar, being suggestive of those tha
! are not.
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