Report on a visit to Bootan (1863-1864)

p.192 Letter of experience of Deputy Magistrate (14 March 1862) penetrating a short way across the Bootan frontier. – Vast tracts are covered with wild cardamum, growing dense and high, so high as to overtop me standing in the howdah; these tracts are the haunts of the rhinoceros, of which there must have been hundreds, as indicated by the numerous fresh footprints of these beasts in the rich, dark, loamy soil.