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Leave Yoksun for Kinchinjunga—Ascend Ratong valley—

Salt-smuggling over Ratong—Landslips—Plants—Buckeem—

Blocks of gneiss—Mon Lepcha—View—Weather—View from Gubroo

—Kinchinjunga, tops of—Pundimcliff—Nursing—Vegetation of

Himalaya—Coup d'oeil of Jongri—Route to Yalloong—Arduous

route of salt-traders from Tibet—Kinchin, ascent of—Lichens—

Surfaces sculptured by snow and ice—Weather at Jongri—Snow—

Shades for eyes.