. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . owded crossing in Paris. The rest of the road lay through what Anglo-Indianscall jungle; but jungle is only a synonym for next incident of a day which, owing to the weather,was on the whole the most melancholy and monotonousof our journey, was the crossing of a torrent, called theRongrong Chu. A substantial bridge had been thrownover it, from which we looked down on the mad turmoilof water, foam, and spray. There are some rhymes ofSoutheys on a little cascade in the English Lakes whichpretend to describe how the
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . owded crossing in Paris. The rest of the road lay through what Anglo-Indianscall jungle; but jungle is only a synonym for next incident of a day which, owing to the weather,was on the whole the most melancholy and monotonousof our journey, was the crossing of a torrent, called theRongrong Chu. A substantial bridge had been thrownover it, from which we looked down on the mad turmoilof water, foam, and spray. There are some rhymes ofSoutheys on a little cascade in the English Lakes whichpretend to describe how the water comes down at Lodore when I have seen it there has been little orno water to come down, but the pile of adjectives andpresent participles the poet has accumulated may serve toconvey my impression of the Kongrong Chu as we saw itin spate, a superb cataract rushing down a cloven ravineover which pale hydrangeas dripped, while the grey lichenson the nodding trees were shaken by the perpetual blast. The situation of Samatek rouses even the matter-of-fact. Tlllv IcjKK-il .NhAK ; ^Tb R a f? 7» OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE TEESTA GORGES 85 Road-Book to the exclamation, A magnificent view. Itmust be ; but from us it was completely veiled. My onlyrecollection of the hours we spent there is of much dryingof clothes, and in the morning, of glimpses between therainstorms up a deep valley into which the mountains sankin splendid curves, buttress behind buttress, very greenin the foreground, deep blue in the distance, the wholecut off and roofed by a canopy of cloud, through whichwatery gleams pierced only at rare intervals. The Bungalow of Samatek (6961 feet) is a solitaryhouse in the forest at a great height above the down are villages, of one of which our future guide,Binsing, was the head or Kazi, and here he rejoined this neighbourhood two adventurous Englishwomenestablished themselves for some years as missionaries,travelling much about the coun
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