Note 12 — Chapter I · JOURNEY FROM DARJILING TO TASHILHUNPO.
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Perhaps Nya-dug-shing (nya, “fish;” dug, “poison;” shing, “tree”). Dr. Hooker (op. cit., i. 168) mentions as growing in Sikkim, aconite and convallaria yielding the bikh poison.—(W. R.) ↑