Note 33 — Chapter I · JOURNEY FROM DARJILING TO TASHILHUNPO.
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November 24.—The village of Kangpa-chan33 is built on several terraces facing the south-west, the houses enclosed in low stone walls. Several small streams empty into the Kangchan below the village, and mountains covered with snow and ice rise precipitously on either side of it, their lower slopes clad with thick forest growth of moss-covered silver firs, deodars, and larches. Juniper and rhododendron bushes surround the village. Round about it are patches of barley,34 from one to the other of which flew flocks of wild pigeons.