. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. d covering the ground in places two or threeinches deep. The Xepalis deem the insect a greatluxury, and eat it raw. In 1889 a plague of locusts occurred. The insectsoverspread the Avhole of India, doing immense damageto the crops. Every possible means was employedto check their devastations, and rewards were offeredfor their extermination. At one station alone twenty-two tons of them were killed in a single day. Darjiling is on the border of Sikkim, where theHimalayas present their grandest aspects, and wherethe most favorable view-points are a
. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. d covering the ground in places two or threeinches deep. The Xepalis deem the insect a greatluxury, and eat it raw. In 1889 a plague of locusts occurred. The insectsoverspread the Avhole of India, doing immense damageto the crops. Every possible means was employedto check their devastations, and rewards were offeredfor their extermination. At one station alone twenty-two tons of them were killed in a single day. Darjiling is on the border of Sikkim, where theHimalayas present their grandest aspects, and wherethe most favorable view-points are available. MountEverest is about one hundred and fifty miles distant ibut nowhere can a good view of that, the highestmountain in the world, be obtained, on account ofthe cluster of lofty peaks which closely beset lies forty miles due north of Darjiling,and its height is not diminished, nor its individualityimpaired, in the same manner. If one considers thedifficulty in viewing a modern office building from a Panorama of Darjiling. «;k- r^* KANCHANJANGA. 269 point within two or three blocks of its base, it willreadily be understood that forty miles is a favorabledistance from which to survey a five-mile , which is fifteen hundred feet higher thanDarjiling, is the most convenient station for thespectator. The panorama embraces a score, or more,of peaks exceeding twenty thousand feet in height,with Mount Everest away over at the western pointof the spur, which runs at right angles to the rangecontaining Kanchanjanga. Major Waddell gives a fine description of this hoarygiant as he aj^peared at the dawn of a clear day: Far away in the yet dusky sky, and at an amazingheight, a rosy peak flashed forth for an instant, andvanished into the darkness. This was the summitof Kanchen-junga. It reappeared almost immedi-ately, and brighter than before, in the rising glow ofdawn, which, reflected from peak to peak, streameddown the lower pinnacles, bathing
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