Now I am preparing for another trip to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Snows, the <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354">Rajah</persName>’s tacit opposition & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rains will be obstacles, but I know & like <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the people & could I but get coolies who dared <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to cross the Passes even 4 I would still measure <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> plain at the foot of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> but<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="11v" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u" hand="#unknown">Chinese vigilance</hi> is insuperable, the people though <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />good & courageous in all other respects dread their <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354">Rajah</persName> & the Chinese, the former sells their family <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to Bhothan slavery on the slightest pretense & I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />cannot get independent people but Bhothan <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />men, who fear no God nor man nor <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>JD</abbr> <expan>Joseph Dalton</expan> </choice> Hooker <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which is the worst part of it<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & with whom <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I cannot get on. <gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible" unit="words" quantity="1" /> I take 4 hoping to cross the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />passes & have offered all the bribes my poor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />purse can command. I shall be some Months <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />away & hope to camp high up on the passes to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />take Simultaneous <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Obs.</abbr> <expan>Observations</expan> </choice> with <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Dorjiling</placeName> <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/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">Calcutta</placeName>. – I send you a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb">sketch plan</ref> with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>approx.</abbr> <expan>approximate</expan> </choice> position of the Passes I seek<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">Lachen</placeName> <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/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">Lachoon</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> the former is <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">said</hi> to debouche on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plain of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>, with <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">no descent</hi>. <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></del> <add place="across">H</add> </subst>ow very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hard it will be if I cannot get through! – How <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />curious is the reentrant <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>∠</orig> <reg>angle</reg> </choice> that po<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="3" /></del> <add place="across">liti</add> </subst>cal <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />makes here – still the water shed is in parallel <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – Food in these journeys is a great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />desideratum, there is no personal danger. For <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Bhotheas bully & oppose tacitly & will not fight.