Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 1): Astronomical determinations of latitudes and longitudes and magnetic observations: during a scientific mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 1861)

B. HIGH ASIA.

a. HIMALAYA.

GROUP VI.
BHUTAN TO NEPAL.

STATIONS 44 to 49.
Narigun.—Darji'ling.—Rangit Bridge.—Tonglo.—Falut.—Kathmandu.

No. 44. Narigun, in Bhutan.

This place is the residency of a Lama Governor, and is the most southern out-
post on the route from Lhassa, via Tauong to Assam. The houses of the Lama are
surrounded by a large village, built quite close to the banks of the river Ri-ju, and
not, as most Himalayan villages, upon the flanks of a mountain.

The country does not belong to Bhutan Proper, but is a direct dependency of
Lhassa.

I experienced great difficulties in getting to Narigun with my instruments. The
observations were made half a mile south of the village, in a grove of trees which
allowed of my remaining unobserved.

Geographical Co-ordinates.

Latitude North. Longitude East Green. Height.
26° 53' 50" 92° 6' 0" 3,615 feet.

Observations: 1856, January 10 and 12.

Instruments: Theodolite 3, Troughton; Chron. 3; Barom. 1, Greiner. Observer: Hermann.

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