chortens, pass to Yumthang
They now profess Buddhism and are generally very devotional,
although they worshipped the spirits of the mountains, rivers and forests,
a natural outcome of their surroundings...
everything would tend to foster such beliefs
in a country where the mighty snows appear immortal,
the raging torrents irresistible...
and where even the melencholy cry of the bird
is pitched in a minor key,
all must encourage such beliefs
and leave a deep impression on the character
of the people who live amidst it.
J. Claude White,
Sikkim and Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Fronteir 1887-1908
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