�������t¶��

At Kalimpong there was a large and comfortable Dak bungalow, surrounded by a well-kept garden full of roses and scarlet hibiscus with a beautiful and large-flowered mauve solanum growing up the pillars on the verandah.

Next day we marched across the track of an avalanche, and the following afternoon reached the Almorah Dak Bungalow, or rest house.

At last we reached Thuria Ghât, where the ascent of the hills commenced, and there we halted for the night in the Dak Bungalow, or rest house.

I was most thankful to see my wife and child safe in the Dak Bungalow after what was for delicate people a perilous journey, though an interesting and enjoyable one, through a country hardly ever traversed by European officials, and never by women and children.

The dâk bungalow extended its accommodation to travelling natives, for whom there was a department opposite.