<persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Campbell</persName> had hence to go <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">South</add> back to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& I being very anxious to visit the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> face of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> proceeded North. After many days <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of toilsome journeys through the most impracti<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />cable country I camped at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flanks of the Great <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> upon a bold bare <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />spur covered with snow & every where <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />abounding in evidences of great glacial floods <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />having once washed all over it. The ground <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was frozen <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16" unit="zoll_englisch">16 inches</measure> but a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice> sunk <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2" unit="foot">2 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s"><add place="superlinear"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></add></del> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="6" unit="zoll_englisch">6. inches</measure> stood considerably higher –. I hoped <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to have spent a week here but after 3 <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />days of observations the snow fell so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heavily that we were obliged to retreat <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with precipitancy & in the middle of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-01" calendar="#gregorian">January</date> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />after 2 days of great exertion descended to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys at the foot of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice>. Thence returning <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>difft.</abbr> <expan>different</expan> </choice> route I visited the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H5217773">sacred Lake of <lb />Sikkim</placeName> & witnessed the simple worship of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Bhudhists<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> Thence to the oldest convents <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> where I staid a few days with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the monks<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & finally returned to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName>.