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- 1933-10-02 (Creation)
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The party encounters heavy leech infestations and plans to stay six days while Danny goes to Me La. They find a sick Tibetan alone in a shelter and provide food; Kurthip is left behind with fever on a quinine course. A map correction is noted for the road crossing the Dongde Chu and the location of Sana.
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1.30, continuing the rest of the evening. Very disappointed to find that there are many leeches here - one can hardly walk 20 yards through grass without getting several. Why they should be here and on the E side of the Trashiyangsi, anywhere between 6000' and 13000', I don't know. Here we have arranged to stay six days (whilst Danny goes to Me La). There is a poor Tibetan all alone here in a shelter. He is ill and has been unable to leave the place for the last 10 days. He has no food, and is in bad pain. It looks as if he had a very bad abscess behind his right shoulder blade. We can at least feed him, though what the treatment is, I don't know. Left Kurthip behind this time, as he is still pretty bad with fever. He is on a course of 20 grains of Quinine a day now for a fortnight. A correction on the map should be made of the road here. It recrosses to the left bank of the Dongde Chu below the mark ("Village"), not above it as shown. The place called Sana by the locals is 1 mile below the place we camp in. The old Sana is overgrown and has no hut and does not appear to be used much as a shelter.
