. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . the spuroverhanging the meeting of the Teesta and the Ranjit thestately mass of Kangchenjunga, borne up on either side bythe snows of Pandim and Kabru, displayed to our eyes forthe first time its tremendous tiers of precipices. The airwas surcharged with moisture, sunset was at hand: blueand gold, blue hills and valleys, golden clouds and snows,is the note I find in my diary. Presently the gold turnedto red and amber, laid in broad strips between thedarkening green of the foothills and azure pools of bareheaven. The vision
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . the spuroverhanging the meeting of the Teesta and the Ranjit thestately mass of Kangchenjunga, borne up on either side bythe snows of Pandim and Kabru, displayed to our eyes forthe first time its tremendous tiers of precipices. The airwas surcharged with moisture, sunset was at hand: blueand gold, blue hills and valleys, golden clouds and snows,is the note I find in my diary. Presently the gold turnedto red and amber, laid in broad strips between thedarkening green of the foothills and azure pools of bareheaven. The vision of the range was of but brief duration ;three inches more rain were to fall during the night. In place of descending to the Bungalow of Pashok,a shed in the lower forest zone, we halted at the com-modious house of Mr. Leicester, the manager of the tea-plantation we had just passed through. His home ischarmingly situated on a spur looking straight up the deepBanjit valley to the snows of Kangchenjunga. The gardenheld between its cactus hedges a wealth of blossom. But.
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