IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
UPPER SIKKIM 109
behind, and we came into a region of Alpine vegetation-
spruce-firs, ash, birch, maple, crab-apple, and nut, with
jasmine, ivy, spinea, wood-sorrel, and here and there, rising
lightly through the shade of the forest, a gigantic white
lily, most exquisitely lovely.
On June 26 we reached Tangu, at a height of 12,000
feet above the sea, and here in a comfortable wooden rest-
house, in a cool and refreshing climate, we were able to
forget all the depressions of the steamy valleys. The
spiræa, maple, cherry, and larch, which we had met
lower down, had now disappeared, and in their place
were willow, juniper, stunted birch, silver fir, white
rose, berberry, currant, and many rhododendrons. The
mountain-sides were covered with grass and carpeted with
flowers, and especially with many beautiful varieties of
primulas, as well as with gentians, potentillas, geraniums,
campanulas, ground orchids, delphiniums, and many other
plants, while near by we found a fine dark blue poppy ;
and, most remarkable plant of all, growing here and
there on the mountain-side in isolated grandeur, a gigantic
rhubarb (Rheum nobile), described by Hooker as the hand-
somest herbaceous plant in Sikkim, with great leaves
spread out on the ground at the base, while the main
plant rose erect to a height of 3 feet in the form of a
pyramid, but with the clusters of flowers protected from
the wind and rain, by reflexed bracts.
Here, at Tangu, only a march below the district
round Giagong, which the Tibetans claimed, the real
business of the mission commenced. By July, 1 the
whole of both the escort and the support—the former
200 men and the latter 300—were assembled, under the
command of Colonel Brander. Both the men and the
transport animals had suffered greatly in marching through
the drenching rain and the steamy, fever-laden lower
valleys ; but now, in the cooler air of Tangu, they re-
covered their strength, and all were eager for the advance
into Tibet. I was myself equally keen, but as I could
hear no news of either Chinese or Tibetan officials of rank
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