Chapter 7

Excursion from Dorjiling to Great Rungeet -- Zones of vegetation -- Tree-ferns -- Palms, upper limit of -- Leebong, tea plantations -- Ging -- Boodhist remains -- Tropical vegetation -- Pines -- Lepcha clearances -- Forest fires -- Boodhist monuments -- Fig -- Cane-bridge and raft over Rungeet -- Sago-palm -- India-rubber -- Yel Pote -- Butterflies and other insects -- Snakes -- Camp -- Temperature and humidity of atmosphere -- Junction of Teesta and Rungeet -- Return to Dorjiling -- Tonglo, excursion to -- Bamboo, flowering -- Oaks -- _Gordonia_ -- Maize, hermaphrodite flowered -- Figs -- Nettles -- Peepsa -- Simonbong, cultivation at -- European fruits at Dorjiling-Plains of India.