CHAPTER VII

A HUMAN MISCELLANY

In a doolie to the base--Tibetan bearers--A retrospect--A reverie and a reminiscence--Snow-bound at Phari--The Bhutia as bearer--The Lepchas and their humours--Mongolian odours--The road at last--Platitudes in epigram--Lucknow doolie-wallahs--Their hymn of the obvious--Meetings on the road--A motley of races--Through a tropical forest--The Tista and civilization 115-126