Chapter XXIX

View of Himalaya from the Khasia -- Great masses of snow -- Chumulari -- Donkia -- Grasses -- Nunklow -- Assam valley and Burrampooter -- Tropical forest -- Bor-panee -- Rhododendrons -- Wild elephants -- Blocks of Syenite -- Return to Churra -- Coal -- August temperature -- Leave for Chela -- Jasper hill -- Birds -- _Arundina_ -- Habits of leaf-insects -- Curious village -- Houses -- Canoes -- Boga-panee river -- Jheels -- Chattuc -- Churra -- Leave for Jyntea hills -- Trading parties -- Dried fish -- Cherries -- Cinnamon -- Fraud -- Pea-violet -- Nonkreem -- Sandstone -- Pines -- Granite boulders -- Iron washing -- Forges -- Tanks -- Siberian _Nymphaea_ -- Barren country -- Pomrang -- _Podostemon_ -- Patchouli plant -- Mooshye -- Enormous stone slabs -- Pitcher-plant -- Joowye -- Cultivation and vegetation -- _Hydropeltis_ -- Sulky hostess -- Nurtiung -- _Hamamelis chinensis_ -- Bor-panee river -- Sacred grove and gigantic stone structures -- Altars -- Pyramids, etc. -- Origin of names -- _Yandaca coerulea_ -- Collections -- November vegetation -- Geology of Khasia -- Sandstone -- Coal -- Lime -- Gneiss -- Greenstone -- Tidal action -- Strike of rocks -- Comparison with Rajmahal hills and the Himalaya.