Unfortunately the season of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848" calendar="#gregorian">1848</date> was so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bad & the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354">Rajah</persName> so strenuously <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />opposed my visiting <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kunchin</placeName> in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that I was obliged to put off starting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />till the <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-10" calendar="#gregorian">very end of October</date> & take a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />circuitous route in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. Thus I was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />led to two <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> Passes – the Eastermost <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of there in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> & to a fair exami<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />nation of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>NW</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice>, <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>SW.</abbr> <expan>Southwest</expan> </choice> & latterly the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> limits of <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> Snow upon the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great mountain. My chart is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hardly finished & as you may suppose <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the labor of such a work amongst <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mountains wherein known points <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are never visible is great.