17 Another foggy morning with rain obscured the landscape & the snow range. I decided to leave & took the train for Calcutta at 2 P. M. It was raining gently at the time. My companion was a Captain, who I had met at the hotel previously. He seemed to have quite a knowledge of Botany but was on his way to his regiment at Allahabad after 3 weeks at Darjeeling. When we reached Kurseong at 4 P. M., where we took tea, the mist lifted & from there downward we had a fine view of the plains all the way. The road ran past many tea gardens & then...